CHAPTER 99: FIRST PHASE PART 2

"Pandora...are you okay?" Amiya asks as she sees me smashing a wall with a punch.

I’m extremely pissed off, my rage is incalculable, I have no idea who the son of a bitch was attacking but it was clearly focused on my clothes.

I was already irritated by the long-range attacks until I noticed that the focus was entirely on my outfit, whoever this damn pervert is, I’ll make him pay dearly.

I spent all my mana just to kill such a person, but the director prevented it, apparently my team won but my hatred is not satisfied with just that.

And of course, I will take out this hatred on the next team we face, now the next team competition will be tomorrow, when I find out who the bastard was attacking, he will be screwed.

"Yes, I’m fine, I’m perfectly fine." I made clothes with the shadows to not expose my body, I’m glad the director won’t let the public see me naked.

Kaito and Yuki were apparently also on the enemy team, they were defeated by Hana and Tsubasa, maybe my can talk to them to see who the bastard was.

Hana and Tsubasa don’t even try to talk to me, they know I’m mad, Amiya seems a little scared but I don’t care, I take clothes from my shadow and go to the bathroom to change, there’s no way I can just stay with the shadows protecting my body.

"Pandora, you seem quite pissed off, why do you care? In that dungeon, you were completely naked when you found me," Violet says to me in a disdainful tone.

"That’s not the problem..." it’s something deeper.

"It’s not about being naked, it’s about a damn pervert son of a bitch watching my naked body, my body is not something others should observe with lust."

"I am from Mikael, Zephyra, and Delphina, only those I allow can see my naked body, on the battlefield I can just kill everyone who sees me naked, but in this competition..."

"This unknown pervert took advantage of the fact that I couldn’t kill him to observe my beautiful body, just to satisfy his lustful gaze over my beauty...I should tear out the eyes of this despicable pervert."

"...You...are strange, like really strange, how being naked in battle doesn’t bother you but having another seeing it in a competition bothers you?" Violet says without really understanding, then we start a discussion for hours on this topic.

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"You...why did you do that?" I ask the student who was clearly focusing on Pandora’s clothes for some reason.

"...I was just fighting normally, Director Akari," she says, looking at me.

The princess is a difficult person to understand, very difficult, she has a reputation for being manipulative, but what doesn’t make sense to me is why she was focusing specifically on Pandora’s clothes.

Of course, against some naive girls, their clothes might come off and they’ll stop fighting to hide their intimate parts, but I know Pandora wouldn’t be that way and the Princess also knows that Pandora wouldn’t stop fighting just because she was naked.

In fact, I can even imagine Pandora charging at her enemies completely naked without a care.

Moreover, the Princess’s expression was at least questionable, and as the director, I should intervene in this kind of thing.

"You and I both know you weren’t fighting normally." I must say that her idea of shaping the magic using the weapon was brilliant, but obviously that was anything but normal, each magic had a 100% focus on hitting the clothes.

Not to mention the fact that the Princess cried a little, many may think it was pain from forcing her magic to fit the mold of the weapon, but that didn’t seem like pain to me.

"I have no idea what you’re talking about, Director, I was just attacking Pandora normally."

"Why were you deliberately aiming at the clothes?" I’m obliged to maintain order as the director, and unfortunately Pandora is like a bomb, I can’t let Pandora simply try to kill the Princess.

"...I wasn’t..."

"I stopped the broadcast." I couldn’t broadcast that kind of thing to the public, what would the population think if they saw the Princess drooling, crying, and specifically focusing on another girl’s clothes?

The two are people of high social status, if something like that is released to the public, a huge backlash would be formed.

Something that could disrupt the social order of the kingdom, especially since one is the Princess while the other is someone who has as much authority as the king, perhaps even more.

"Be honest, I won’t let anything like this leave this room...besides, I erased the memories of the other members of your team." I can’t let Pandora find out it was the Princess.

No matter how Pandora is, based on her past history, I know that without a doubt, she will try to kill the Princess if she finds out, maybe not at the academy, but as soon as the Princess steps outside the academy, Pandora will try to kill her.

I need to protect the Princess, but to do that, I need to at least understand the reason behind this, because what’s the point of protecting the Princess now if she’s going to do something like she has done other times.

"...I..." She seems to be thinking a lot, as if she’s discussing what to say.

"...I was just..."

"Director, I love Pandora."

"...What?" I’m shocked by this out of nowhere.

"That’s right, I love Pandora, but I didn’t want to hurt her, I thought that if I aimed at her clothes, she would retreat back to base."

"...You? Love Pandora? Romantically?"

"Yes, I didn’t want to fight her, I just wanted to push her away, but she was much more determined than I thought...I apologize if this caused you any trouble."

Her tone is quite convincing, but I know she’s quite manipulative, so it’s hard to discern whether this is true or not.

’She loves Pandora...’ Their love doesn’t concern me, but this will be problematic.

"Okay...avoid doing things like this in the future...you’re dismissed, and don’t tell anyone you were on that team." I can’t really punish Evangeline, she technically didn’t do anything wrong, since she didn’t try to kill Pandora at any point.

And any magic, as long as it didn’t have permanent effects or cause permanent injury, was allowed, so her approach was valid.

In fact, I would have had to punish Pandora for trying to kill Evangeline’s team, but I understand her anger, so punishing her doesn’t seem quite right either, after all, it’s natural for a girl not to accept the perversion of someone she doesn’t know.

’This reminds me of my master...she was quite perverted...’ I remember seeing her peeking through the wall when I was taking a bath, and I usually stuck my finger in the crack, hitting her eye.

And when I got out of the bath, she just pretended everything was normal.

Soon I see the Princess leave.

’...I’ll have a lot of work...’ I’ll have to reallocate some teams and erase the memories of some people so that it’s impossible for Pandora to find out it was the Princess who did this.

Erasing Pandora’s memory would be much more difficult compared to erasing the memories of other students.

’These students give me so many problems, I think I need to retire...’ retirement seems great, going on vacation to a luxurious and quiet hotel, just watching the scenery and enjoying the money.

’For now, let’s see what I can do.’ I start looking at various papers related to the teams to reallocate the positions and choose which students I will erase the memory of.

Although it’s somewhat unfair to favor the Princess, it would be terrible to let Pandora kill the Princess. I’m glad the broadcast isn’t instant, but happens 20 minutes later.

So the population only watches the competition 20 minutes after it has started, thanks to this, no one saw the Princess acting.

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"See, I told you it would work," I say to my other self.

"Good afternoon, Evangeline-sama," a colleague passing by greets me, and I greet her back and continue on my way.

"Yes, it worked, barely, though I think the Director didn’t believe everything," my other self says to me.

"It doesn’t matter, even if she doesn’t believe everything, at least she doesn’t know we did that just to see Pandora naked," I say to my other self, being careful for no one to hear me, since it would be strange to see me talking to nothing.

"Hey, did you get good footage?" I ask my other self.

"Wonderful, we got perfect recordings, the recording stone is very good, I think we should even invest money in the creator, he deserves a reward," my other self says excitedly.

"Perfect." Soon we go to my room, the losing teams are returned to the academy, while the competing teams stay in a special location. After another competition in the first round, the winners will move on to the second round.

It’s a shame I lost the first round, but it’s not like I needed the extra credits, plus I got something even better than student credits, I got more recordings and photos.

I enter my room and soon make the images on paper using the magic of the stone. I start pasting several new photos, I make some space to put the photos of Pandora naked with her wings fully spread.

The image quality is perfect, the creator of this artifact has my respect.

"I think we need a bigger room..." I say to my other self, there are Pandora’s images all over the place, the walls and ceiling are full of photos, I just don’t put them on the floor because I can’t step on Pandora’s photos, that would be a high-level sacrilege.

"...Do you think if we ask the director, she’ll let us use a spatial expansion artifact in our room?" I say to my other self, who agrees that having more space would be good.

"Now...we should masturbate furiously for the next 49 hours while apologizing for hurting Pandora." Although I want more than just 49 hours, I still have to watch Pandora’s competition, it would be disrespectful not to watch her defeat the other teams.

’I hope Pandora beats the crap out of my older brother and wipes that smug smile off his face.’ My other self and I share the same view on my brother.

"Now let’s start." I activate a magical timer to start the 49-hour countdown, I won’t leave the room and won’t eat anything, eating my meals would be disrespectful after having hurt Pandora.