In Shirou's mind, the magician named Silent was very important. It was hard to imagine how good the other person's magic circle creation was.
As he was thinking, the draft paper in his hand seemed unable to handle the extreme barrier, and it turned directly into dust.
This further showed Silent's amazing magic circle making ability.
The fact that the other person could put such an extreme magic circle on a normal piece of draft paper and keep it stable for so long was enough to show that their skill was close to god-level.
However, Pursena, who was far away, had an expression of disbelief when she saw the magic circle break. She said in disbelief, "That magic circle cost hundreds of gold coins! How could it break so easily? Didn't they say you get what you pay for?"
For Pursena, the magic circle breaking out of nowhere seemed harder to accept than being beaten by Shirou.
She suddenly lost her fighting spirit, as if she had become a squashed frog.
Shirou didn't care about the beast girl's thoughts, but he was also sad that the magic circle had broken.
Although such an extreme barrier probably wouldn't last long on draft paper, it also made it impossible for Shirou to study this kind of magic circle barrier.
If he wanted to figure out how this kind of barrier was made, the only way was probably to find Silent himself to study it.
In short, Shirou easily defeated the two beast princesses, Linia and Pursena, on his own.
But the problem wasn't solved.
Whether it was Rudeus' Ed or these two beast-eared girls, they still needed to be taken care of.
However, because the fight they had just had made too much noise, a group of people suddenly rushed in and surrounded the entire dining hall.
It turned out that after some students found out about the fight, they immediately reported it to the student government.
Now, the members of the Ranoa Magic Academy student government had completely arrived and surrounded the scene.
The Ranoa Magic Academy student government, like modern student governments, was an organization where the school gave power to the students, allowing them to govern themselves.
Compared to modern schools, the magic university's student government had more power, so they had more responsibility than normal.
Even conflicts between students had to be handled personally.
Now, after the dining hall incident, the student government got the information and immediately brought people to check the situation.
They first looked around the scene. When they saw Linia and Pursena, they naturally showed disgusted expressions. After confirming that there were signs of a fight, they didn't even bother to confirm the situation and wanted to arrest everyone who was involved in the fight.
"This isn't right, is it? We haven't even determined that it was our fault yet!"
Rudeus was very unhappy.
Although he knew that this was caused by his own vengeful feelings, the problem was definitely related to Linia and Pursena.
The student government had no reason to arrest people randomly.
"According to the magic university's rules, anyone who uses magic to fight privately in public, no matter who started it, both sides will be punished!"
The leader of the student government was a male student who looked fair. He didn't make any extra judgments. He simply followed the rules of the magic university.
The magic university's rules were also very unfair. They followed the idea that it takes two to tango, so both sides were equally to blame and things were smoothed over.
Leaving aside Shirou's thoughts, Rudeus definitely couldn't accept it.
But the student government members clearly weren't going to change their minds, and they quickly sent people to surround Shirou and Rudeus.
"..."
Faced with this situation, Rudeus instinctively showed fear.
Because of Ed, his personality had become weaker than before. Seeing so many people on the other side, he was naturally suppressed by the atmosphere.
Even though these students added up were no match for him alone, Rudeus completely forgot that he could fight back.
Of course, this may also be because the student government members included not only humans, but also beast people and even demons.
Since Ranoa Magic Academy didn't discriminate against any race, and was very equal at the race level, the students at this school came in all kinds.
As long as they were intelligent races, they could come to the magic university to study.
So the members of the student government were naturally diverse.
Rudeus was facing a group of guys who didn't look like people. Just facing them instinctively weakened his spirit.
In this situation, seeing that the student government members were about to ignore the facts and forcibly punish everyone present, Shirou finally stood up.
"It's true that we taught these two beast girls a lesson, but they started it. And, I heard that Linia and Pursena are troublemakers at this school. We helped teach them a lesson to keep order in the school."
Shirou wasn't afraid of these student government guys, but he didn't want to start a fight casually, so he decided to try to reason with them first.
His words did shake the student government members.
After hearing his words, the group thought about it and felt like that was true.
But the male student leader seemed to be a straight-laced person. Even if he agreed with Shirou's logic, he still said fairly, "I don't care who started this. But for the sake of the respected student council president, what I have to do is manage everything that happens in the school according to the magic university's rules! You used magic to fight privately, this has already broken the rules, so we have to punish you according to the rules!"
"But we didn't use magic."
"Who can prove that?"
"..."
Shirou couldn't help but feel that it was too easy to be wrongly accused in a society without cameras because the other person was so stubborn.
He really wanted to find Principal Jinas and have him quickly change this overly stupid school rule.
Of course, in the current situation, it was clear that he wouldn't be able to leave here easily to see the principal.
Helpless, Shirou could only get ready to fight.
Although fighting with the student government might cause bad results, he absolutely couldn't accept being wrongly accused for no reason.
I'll apologize to Principal Jinas later...
As Shirou made up his mind, his Sword Saint-level fighting spirit started to gather instinctively.
At the same time, the student government members didn't notice Shirou's actions. They just coldly came forward to take down Shirou and Rudeus.
Rudeus was in a panic because he didn't have the courage to fight the student government.
Most importantly, Rudeus didn't think he had done anything wrong and felt that as long as he explained it well, it might be possible to prove his innocence.
Shirou didn't say a word about this because he didn't think these student government guys would be willing to listen to reason.
And he didn't want this to involve Rudeus too much, so he would bear all the responsibility as much as possible.
As he prepared, the male student government member put his hand on his shoulder.
Although the other person was a magic university student, he seemed to have done some training. His strength was not much different from a well-trained Swordsman.
But this kind of strength was no threat to Shirou at all.
He just exerted a little force and easily broke free.
"This..."
The male student government member was stunned for a moment because he didn't expect Shirou to resist. Then he couldn't help but mock, "Oh? What's this? You're planning to resist our student government? If it's just fighting privately, it's just punishment. Fighting the student government will get you expelled! And there are so many of us. You don't think you have a chance to win against so many people, do you?"
Even Rudeus didn't pay much attention to the last sentence.
No matter how many people there were, they couldn't be Shirou's match.
But if it was expulsion, the problem would be troublesome.
At least Rudeus didn't want Shirou to be expelled because of him.
So he instinctively wanted to speak up and at least take some responsibility.
But Shirou had already stood up before that and said coldly, "I'll take responsibility for this alone. If you have the ability, come at me."
"You..."
The student government members were all angry because they didn't expect Shirou to be so arrogant.
Just as the fight was about to break out, a voice suddenly came in.
"Wait! Don't fight yet!"
The speaker was a boy with a high-pitched voice. He had short white hair and wore sunglasses. He was the boy named Fitz that Shirou had met when he first entered the school.
"Lord Fitz?!"
Fitz seemed to have a certain position in the student government. When he arrived, most of the student government members became quiet.
Fitz seemed to not want the fight to break out, especially when he looked at the student government members. He had an expression on his face that said, "It's a good thing you met me."
Then he said to everyone, "I heard about the situation just now. Although the magic university has a rule that private magic fighting is not allowed, the rules are fixed, but people are living. I think even Ariel Sama would give special cases for some special events."
"Lord Fitz, I know you are a close aide of the student council president, but you can't ignore the existence of the school rules."
The male student government member couldn't accept Fitz's request.
"This..."
Fitz seemed to know that his conditions were a bit difficult to accept, and he had a stiff expression for a moment.
The male student government member took the opportunity and said eagerly, "But, Lord Fitz, it's good that you came. This bad student just dared to fight our student government. We must let him know how powerful the student government is! Please punish this stupid guy yourself and protect Ariel Sama's dignity!"
"Huh? Me?!"
Fitz didn't expect that he was just here to ease the conflict, but it turned out that he had to fight Shirou and the others.
Fitz's expression was tearful.
Or rather, he was really about to cry.
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