Special Council of the Magic Knight Academy â Siegfried Granblue
âWe will not commence the meeting regarding the dismissal of Lord Grey Ines Navarro as a professor.â
The poor young man with black hair who was forced to be the facilitator let out a deep sigh and presented the agenda.
âGrey is nothing more than a 13-year-old boy with an origin as a lower aristocrat. Moreover, he imitated the instructor at the time of the examination. With that , itâs already clear from the beginning why he would fail at the professorâs meeting. And you bastard Seig, you not only scheme against other instructors but also acknowledge him as one. Shame on you.â
The Vice Principal stood up vigorously, sprinkling his saliva as he screamed. The other half of the professors who had been replaced by the new ones spoke contemptuously of Grey.
You bastard, you want to reach that far?
After the imperial council, they asked Emperor Georg to approve Greyâs appointment as professor, and since then, a series of unusual events had occurred.
An extraordinary meeting of the board of directors of the Magic Knight Academy was suddenly held, and about half of the professors expressed their intention to resign, which was then approved.
There were two ways to make the professors lose their positions here: the board of directors and the faculty council.
In the board of directors meeting, the person in question also needed to consent for dismissal. Otherwise, even if it was the director, he couldnât remove them.
It wasnât necessary to have the consent of the person to be dismissed by the board of professors, but instead it was necessary for 80% of the professors to resolve that there were special reasons why they were not suitable to become professors.
In this way, it took a great deal of effort to become a professor at the Magic Knight Academy, and even to resign. In fact, there had only been a handful of resignations, and even then, they had been for personal reasons.
It was unheard of, such as half resigning at once. Or rather, those strong professors obeyed with a large amount of money. That wasnât something that should have happened in reality. Yes, only if it werenât for the involvement of that fanatic (most likely it was handed down by the Lord of Internal Affairs).
It was after the Imperial Conference that Seig applied for approval from Emperor Georg. That fanatic must have left the place before he could get there. If that was the case, he must have heard about the approval of Grey as a professor from his good friend, the Lord of Internal Affairs, and tried to take advantage of the situation more efficiently.
What a pity he didnât know he was swimming to his doom.
That fanaticâs goal was to put that monster Grey at the helm of this Empire.To do so, he could sacrifice his former compatriots and the Emperor he was supposed to serve without hesitation. He was that kind of fanatic.
In short, these new professors were akin to lamb sacrifices destined to become the cornerstone of the nation as villains. However, only the attendees of the Imperial Conference knew about such a background. The other half of the remaining professors had no way of knowing.
âIâm sorry, but the approval of a professor requires a certain level of achievement and the approval of 80% of the faculty council. He has done an exceptional job of reviving some of the lost magic and 80% of the Faculty Council is in favor of him. The professorâs approval process is in order.â
âThatâs right, isnât it? I can also attest to the appropriateness of the Faculty Councilâs decision to appoint Lord Gray as professor.â
The professor of the Combat Magic Department agreed with Rebecca, and soon the other half of the professors voted in favor of Greyâs appointment in succession.
âThat bratâs dismissal was the desire of the former Emperor.Do you intend to disobey the ex-Emperorâs wish?â
If you mentioned the name of the former Emperor, everything would be fine. This was cancer in this country that needed to be removed as soon as possible.
âYou should have known this, Vice Principal. Lord Grey was once approved by the faculty meeting and we still need to decide upon the 80% consent of professors for âa valid reason one is unsuitable for professor.â At this point, heâs not even close to meeting that requirement.â
âThat guy is still a child, moreover someone from low nobility!â
âThat reason too doesnât hold any ground for his qualification as professor.â
âFormer Emperor wishedââ
âThese special reasons to the bitter end are only related to the qualities that were discovered after one became a professor. It is not possible for Lord Grey, who has not yet been active as a professor, to meet these requirements. It is the same even if the former Emperor said he isnât suitable.â
The professor of the Judicial Department immediately interrupted the Vice Principalâs words and uttered a perfectly reasonable rebuttal. The newly-appointed professors once again screamed loudly at the Vice Principal who was groaning in dissatisfaction. It was as if the Vice Principal had multiplied in large numbers, and it was beyond depressing.
Oscar Lanswick, the dark-haired young man who had been forced into the role of facilitator of this meeting, let out a loud sigh.
âWe will never reach an agreement like this. The point is that Lord Greyâs qualifications as a professor seem to be in dispute. If thatâs the case, why donât we judge him by the performance of his students in the regular examinations after one year of his teaching?â
He suggested an alternative.
No one raised any objection. In fact, everyone in the room knew that this was the only way to go.
In any case, Grey was a monster who could bring back the lost magic. It wasnât as if the students he taught couldnât get a certain grade.
âIn that case, he should be in charge of Class GâŚ..â
âThat much would beâŚ..â
Rebecca was at a loss for words. The other professors also raised their voices in denial one after another.
Here in the Magic Knight Academy, classes were divided based on abilities in order of S, A, B, and C, and students were assigned to each class according to their performance on the entrance exam. And so only those who passed the annual examination were promoted to the next level. In addition, in this exam, the passed ones were promoted to one class up and those who failed one class down.This was how the system worked.
In this regard, those who were enrolled in Class C, the lowest level, and had failed twice in a row were placed in a special remedial class called Class G. In this class, by reteaching the foundation, if they passed the examination one year later, they would be promoted to Class C again, and failure would result in forced expulsion.
In this way although Class G was supposed to solidify their foundation but in reality, the classes they had to take were reduced dramatically and more importantly, their motivation was made to drop down by the scornful gazes of other students.
In fact, most of the students dropped out of school out of desperation, or gave up and stopped training and learning, and only a few were actually able to advance. Therefore, Class G was commonly known as the discarded cockroach class among the students, and in fact very rarely were students able to pass out from this class.
âYou guys did say that that brat is brilliant, isnât he? I think it will not matter in which class you put him, right?â
Looking at the self-satisfied face of the Vice Principal aroused oneâs impulse to beat him hard.
I could easily guess the purpose of these people refusing to accept Grey as a professor to this extent.
By convention for noble ranks, Magic Knight Academyâs graduation was needed but it was at best just convention, so one could substitute it with professor qualification. Saying it in reverse, if one didnât hold the title of Magic Knight Academyâs student or qualification as professor, then he couldnât hold the title of noble rank.
That was the basis for pure blood aristocrats to deny Greyâs title together with taking over the materials of the land of Radol. That would be the case.
However, there was no way that Grey would permit such things. Supposing that it was enforced then the war between Grey and the pure blood aristocrats was inevitable. The winner would be Grey, without even thinking about it. That fact was the quickest way to centralize the power that the Lord Warlord was planning.
In any case, minor decisions such as the organization of classes would be decided by a majority of the faculty. As long as they had the majority, they had the rules.
Was he also aiming for this?
Seig also took the final resistance while cursing the Warlord.
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âIâm sorry for saying something extra.â
After the end of the conference, Oscar Lanswick, the professor of the postgraduate Life Magic Research Department who was forced to facilitate the meeting, bowed deeply to Zeke and the other old professors. Oscar Lanswickâs name was frequently heard these days. As I recalled, he was a genius who developed a new kind of life magic.
He was appointed as a professor at this time. I was expecting him to be a staunch supporter of the Emperor, but judging from the way he was acting, he might have just been forced into it because he couldnât say no.
âNo, it couldnât be helped. Donât worry about it.â
However, it was almost a complete defeat for Seig and the others.
The faculty meeting had decided that all the students who had been placed in Class G had to be placed in the top 40 of the entire school. That would be impossible, no matter how many Greys there were.
But giving up here would be deplorable.
Grey by no means was a Saint. If it became necessary, he would thoroughly overrun them so that they would never rise up again. This stance was evident in the earlier battle with the Royal Army. If we turned a blind eye here, countless blood would be spilled in our homeland. That was the only thing we had to avoid.
One wrong step and civil war would break out. From here on, we needed to be as careful as if we were threading a needle.
It wasnât about what we could do but what we must do. Seig began to desperately search for a way to avoid a bloody future that had a high probability of happening.