An Angel Lives in the Academy
Chapter 97: The Angel Meets the Headmaster (2)

“We’re asking the Headmaster for help?”

The professors voiced their doubts at Park Jin-ho's shocking statement.

“Hmm, would the Headmaster really be able to save Leffrey…?”

Even Klein, who always acted like an arrogant nobleman, suppressing his emotions, lost his composure and raged when he saw Leffrey injured.

“That’s too much of a gamble…”

Lusa, who always just cursed and moved on, even when the great forest was destroyed, even when she was used by the World Tree, barely held back tears as she muttered,

"What, what if the Headmaster doesn't want to save Leffrey? What if he doesn't want to use his karma to save this child?"

"…There's a high chance of that happening. It’s not something he would do for a mere student."

Karma, also known as deeds.

A fundamental power that changes the world, a legendary power said to reign supreme over all other powers, such as esper abilities, magic, physical force, and spirit energy.

In a certain little angel’s messages, it was translated as the trivial term ‘Angelic Power’.

The Headmaster’s power remains unconfirmed, but the professors were certain that he wielded it.

“It doesn’t matter.”

The professors turned to Park Jin-ho.

Pity, disbelief, sorrow, and guilt, they communicated silently through their gazes.

As Hexi held Leffrey’s hand, as Lusa’s eyes shook at the boy’s weakening breath,

Park Jin-ho said,

“I will persuade the Headmaster. By any means necessary.”

By any means necessary?

Hearing those words, the professors' eyes naturally turned to Park Jin-ho's sword.

“You’re saying that you’ll defy the Headmaster’s will?”

“I’ve never said I would defy him. I’ll just… persuade him a little more forcefully.”

It was essentially the same thing.

Persuading with a sword in hand. How is that any different from threatening?

“…”

Now the professors had another thing to consider. Was the Headmaster's will more important? Or was the life of their precious student, Leffrey?

The professors would naturally choose the Headmaster, who is responsible for the future of the world. The Headmaster’s choices were for the sake of protecting this world.

They believed they could even sacrifice their own comrades to protect this world.

But not this boy.

Unlike them, he was innocent, still young, and with so many opportunities ahead of him. And…

Even if all those things didn’t matter, just…

“Sword Saint-nim, let’s go see the Headmaster right now…”

Hexi was the first to speak.

The other professors nodded.

“Alright.”

“Very well.”

Leffrey was an incredibly precious child to the professors.

So precious that he outweighed even the world, at least to a few of them. It wasn’t as if they would abandon the world if he were to disappear… or maybe…

Perhaps a few thought that way.

“Then, let’s all go see the Headmaster.”

And the professors made their move.

Adults who had shouldered the role of heroes when no other heroes were around. The only heroes who had witnessed the demon king’s might and survived.

The strongest beings of humanity, unquestionably.

The professors of the Central Superhuman Academy went to see their Headmaster.

* * *

The Central Academy has many facilities. Academic buildings for each department, dorms, training halls, and Central Street, a marketplace filled with chain restaurants from this world and famous restaurants from the destroyed other world.

Naiad’s Lake, the abode of the spirit king, the Reflection Forest, which was the best habitat for magical creatures in the human world, the sanctuary of the Church, rebuilt using materials transported from the other world, and mage towers, which were teleported to escape the enemy.

And even a few buildings that even the students had no idea what they were for.

The academy had a ridiculous number of facilities, and each building took up a large area of land. Central Academy was truly a small city in its own right.

You might be asking, wouldn’t all these useless facilities…

…be inconvenient for the students?

Even the students were in a "Just what is that building used for, why is it sparkling all day?”, or “Why does that building look like a screw bar?” And “A cathedral just suddenly appeared on that empty lot? Well, it happens.” Kind of mood, they really didn’t mind.

But even the Central Academy students were curious about one building:

A massive silver castle located north of Central Street. It was so fantastical that those who visited the Central Academy for the first time said it looked like an amusement park.

The professors called it the Headmaster's Castle.

“No, hey, that sounds like something only a first-year would believe.”

Two female students at Central Street, looking at the silver castle in the distance, started to chatter.

“But someone who lives in a magnificent castle like that must be like a prince, right? Even that scary Professor Park Jin-ho becomes really respectful whenever the Headmaster is mentioned. He said the Headmaster is the strongest in the other world, so he must…”

“Hey, that’s just…”

The other student, as if exasperated, pointed at the castle, which shimmered under the afternoon sun.

“That’s just propaganda. It’s just the professors, who represent the other world, lying, claiming that 'there’s a powerful being behind us!’”

The other student tilted her head.

“Why? Why would the professors lie?”

“That way, those scum, like the superhuman families, the guilds, and the demon army, wouldn’t underestimate the Central Academy! And besides, we don't know much about the other world, do we? So even if the professors lie and say, 'the strongest in the other world is our Headmaster,' how would we know if it was true?”

Actually, that was true.

The professors always said that the Headmaster of their academy lived in that castle, and that the Headmaster was much stronger than the professors themselves. They claimed he was the strongest being in the other world.

But the students and the outside world didn't believe the professors’ words.

They couldn't believe for reasons like this.

How could anyone believe some setting they created using the destroyed other world? This was something only the professors were even aware of, not even the ordinary citizens of the other world.

Are we supposed to just believe it?

And the biggest reason they didn't believe was.

“Besides, have you ever seen the Headmaster? You know, the one they talk about in all those rumors?”

“No, but the headmaster of the academy… he’s a very high-ranking individual, so it's not strange that we haven’t seen him. I can’t easily meet the patriarch of my family, either.”

The other student, looking at the naive student, shook her head.

“Have you ever seen him at the entrance ceremony? The Blessing of the Spirits? The sports meet? Or even the graduation ceremony? He’s not even on the internet; there are no news reports…”

The student shouted,

“No! How can you believe that a person we've never even seen exists! Then I’m going to say that our guild also has the strongest person in the human world, and that person is my great-grandfather guild master or something. You idiot!”

“I-I’m not an idiot!”

The student, called an idiot, pouted and muttered softly,

“…But our academy’s Headmaster is the strongest being in the other world, and a super cool prince who has saved countless otherworldly people, a hero…”

“…Right. And he has donkey ears too.”

“No!”

The words of the girl called an idiot weren’t completely wrong.

The headmaster of the Central Superhuman Academy was not a handsome prince. Rather, she was a delicate-looking girl.

Everything else was correct.

The strongest being in the other world, home to elves, dwarves, dragons, and spirits, and the hero who saved countless other world residents by merging the collapsing other world with the human world.

"Ah, I’m so nervous..."

Lusa muttered.

Klein, hearing those words, shook his head.

"So even an elf like you still gets nervous?"

"Stop being sarcastic, bastard. We're going to confront a being who somehow managed to slam one dimension into another. Wouldn't you be scared if it were you? "

“Haah, watch your language…”

As Park Jin-ho grumbled, Lusa turned her head and looked at Rebecca, who was walking behind them.

Or rather, she was looking at the angelic, handsome boy who was on Rebecca’s back, catching his breath.

“Don’t worry too much. With my divine power, this child won't die, never.”

Rebecca spoke kindly, something uncharacteristic of her.

Lusa nodded silently.

“Hell, if it’s for that child, I’m willing to die.”

Lusa’s tone was playful, but her expression was incredibly serious.

Catching Drewmark, the nemesis of the elves, and saving Lime, a child no different from her own little sister.

Whenever Lusa thought about those moments, she felt a deep sense of debt to him.

A debt she would have to spend her entire life repaying.

“Headmaster, the professors are here to see you.”

Standing before a silver door, Park Jin-ho muttered softly.

“That symbol, it really gives me the creeps.”

“It's the Tree of Sephiroth. As expected of a pagan elf.” (TL Note: Pagan essentially means anyone that’s religion isn’t Judaism, Islam, or especially Christianity)

“Tsk.”

A certain emblem was engraved on the silver door. Some called it the Tree of Sephirot, but Park Jin-ho and the Headmaster called it 'the Lineage of Heaven’s Ultimate Skill.'

It depicted the abilities and Ultimate Skills of each archangel, engraved with their respective hierarchy and missions.

According to rumors, the circle at the very top is called ‘Keter’. The angel closest to Heaven, who had the highest rank, was bestowed the Ultimate Skill ‘Keter’.

No one remembers what kind of Ultimate Skill Keter was, or even the name of that angel, but…

[Vice principal, what business do you have here?]

A cold voice asked.

Park Jin-ho immediately replied,

“We have come to ask for a favor.”

[A favor? Does it concern the fate of this world? Or is it something that would be helpful in severing that loathsome demon king’s head?]

Park Jin-ho bowed his head and gathered his thoughts.

Lies wouldn’t work on the Headmaster.

Then…

“It’s nothing that grand.”

[…Vice principal, why have you come to me if it isn't something grand? Have you forgotten your duty, coming to me for a personal favor?]

“Yes! This is a personal favor!”

Park Jin-ho shouted,

“There's one thing this professor has learned recently. While the world always comes first, without individuals, there would be no world.”

[That is truly a disappointing realization. Park Jin-ho. Just who…]

“This child taught it to this inadequate me.”

Park Jin-ho said those words without fear,

“Headmaster, please judge for yourself.”

The silver door began to open with a booming sound.

Beyond a mere creak— *Rumble-*

The professors took a step back and waited for the girl to emerge.

Step- step-

A golden-haired girl walked out.

The girl was beautiful.

She was so exquisitely beautiful that any simple description would be meaningless. She was at the pinnacle of beauty, almost inhumanly so.

But her skin was too pale, and she almost seemed lifeless.

And she, somehow, resembled Leffrey.

The moment the girl appeared, all the professors knelt.

“We greet the last angel on earth.”

“We greet the last angel on earth.”

“We greet the last angel on earth.”

The girl, dubbed an angel, muttered with annoyance,

“Just who is causing such a commotion…”

Her eyes quickly glanced at the boy on Rebecca’s back.

“Wait.”

And the girl's eyes filled with surprise.