Dust drifted through the stone-paved street.
It was an unusual sight.
The main boulevard was essentially the face of the Academy, and so personnel were always stationed there to keep it spotless.
Naturally, it was rare for dust to billow through the air like this.
But what could anyone do?
No matter how thoroughly one swept with a broom, all one could clear away was the dirt lying on top of the road.
It was difficult to prepare for a situation where the road itself had been shattered to pieces.
Because what had happened was simply that absurd.
The Academy was an educational institution whose authority even the Emperor respected and acknowledged.
Wasn’t that precisely why it could remain, at least formally, free from the restrictions of social status?
And someone had overturned the very center of it.
It was not impossible.
It simply was not something any human being with normal powers of judgment would do.
In that sense, the boy before me was insane.
“What in the world…….”
The question came from Senior Luna.
Her pupils trembled aimlessly, plainly displaying her bewilderment.
If a person suddenly fell from the sky and overturned an entire paved road, of course she would react that way.
At least it was fortunate that I had been able to control the range of the impact.
If I had not, the force would have been enough to make the entire ground in the surrounding area surge like liquid before bursting apart.
Just imagining it was horrifying.
Only around then was I finally able to put away my sword.
Until that point, I had needed to stand in front of Avian and Senior Luna to absorb the shockwave for…