The Greatest Blessing

“Congratulations, Onesuko! Leopin”

Messages of blessing filled the entire sky.

This was greeted with earth-shattering astonishment.

“N-No way…”

Onesuko muttered, freezing in place while looking up at the sky.

Her eyes, which had lost their spirit, were now catching the seven-colored reflections.

Light returned to her eyes, as if that brilliance had transferred into them.

“No way!? No way, no way, no way, no way!? No wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!?!? Amazing, amazing, amazing! Amazingggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!”

She no longer knew if it was a dream or reality, but her eyes were filled with delight.

Onesuko readjusted her grip on the Magical Amplification Device and pointed to the sky.

“Everyone, please look! It’s that person! That’s the person who helped me overcome the trial of the Holy Knight! He is my Prince Charming!”

The reporters below the stage were aiming their Magical True-Photo Devices toward the sky.

“W-Whoa! I’ve never seen fireworks like these before!”

“Even at the world’s largest fireworks festivals, you’d never get to see such insane fireworks!”

“The one who made them was… Leopin…?! I’ve never heard of him!”

“He must be an exceptionally talented student from the Fireworker class!”

“Tomorrow’s front page will be a double scoop: the legendary Holy Knight Onesuko and the legendary artisan Leopin!”

The guests of honor looked up at the sky with their mouths agape, as if their necks had become fixed in place.

“B-Beautiful…! I have never seen fireworks so magnificent and exquisite…!”

“Even the court fireworkers couldn’t launch fireworks of this caliber…!”

“Leopin…! Just who on earth is he…!?”

“In any case, he will surely become a world-renowned artisan in the future!”

“Indeed! Once he’s open to the public, we must invest in him immediately!”

The sponsors were struck dumb with amazement.

Then, the words “Wonderful…!” slipped out, before they snapped back to their senses.

All at once, they directed harsh glares toward the Principal and Vice Principal.

Faced with those gazes that felt like pure bloodlust, the Principal and Vice Principal trembled. “Hiee!?”

“B-Baldy-fatty, do something! You were the one in charge of the fireworks!”

“B-Baldy-fatty, you say!? You… to me, the Principal…!”

“Just hurry up and do something! Otherwise, we are finished!”

“Guh…!”

Veins popped out all over the Principal’s face as he scanned the surroundings.

Then, his eyes lit upon the group waiting next to the orchestra.

“That’s it, there’s a way!”

“Fireworkers! Start the fireworks display ahead of schedule!

And ignore the program—make it a ‘Scrap Fireworks’ battle!

Anyway, just fire, fire, and keep firing until you erase those cursed letters of ‘Leopin’!“

In this world, there was something called “Scrap Fireworks.”

It was a contest where fireworks were launched at each other, and whichever erased the opponent and remained in the sky was the winner.

Yes. The countermeasure the Principal took was to “overwrite the fireworks.”

“We have ten professional artisans here! Fireworks launched by a single Jobless brat will be erased like scraps of trash!”

The fireworkers aimed their firework tubes, which looked like small turrets, and began a simultaneous volley.

…Pshhh! Pshhh! Pshhh!

With sharp launching sounds, countless light projectiles were fired, swarming toward the letters of “Leopin.”

…Boom! Boom! Boom! Booooooooom!!

With explosive sounds like gunfire, “Leopin” was riddled with holes.

The Principal laughed loudly.

“Bahahahahaha! Against my power, ‘Leopin’ doesn’t stand a chance! The outcome was obvious between an elite Principal and a mere Jobless! Bah-hahahaha… ha…”

However, that loud laughter vanished more fleetingly than a sparkler and scattered more hideously than a dirty firework.

“Ni… Nigyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!? W-Why won’t they disappear!? Why, why are they still in the skyyyyyy!?!?”

Despite taking such a concentrated barrage of fireworks, the letters of “Leopin” were still shining brilliantly.

The guests, who had completely turned into spectators of a fireworks show, let out a cheer. “Ohhh!?”

“Amazing!? It’s even winning the Scrap Fireworks battle!”

“Those Leopin fireworks aren’t just beautiful and big, they’re strong!”

“Are you serious!? Usually, the strength and beauty of fireworks are inversely proportional!”

“And his opponents are pros, ten of them at once!”

“Since they’re professional fireworks, they must be at least Level 10! To repel ten people’s worth means the level of those Leopin fireworks is…”

“O-One hundreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedd!?!?”

“That’s impossible! There’s no such thing as a Level 100 firework! Besides, there’s absolutely no way a student could make one!”

“T-This is bad! This is too crazy! If those really are Level 100 fireworks, even the world champion of Scrap Fireworks would be treated like a child by Leopin!”

“Man, a real monster has appeared! At this rate, we have to capture Leopin’s image in a photo no matter what!”

The students at the buffet party were all cowering under the tables as if a massive earthquake had hit.

“L-Lies, it’s a lie, a lie, a lie!”

“There’s no way a Jobless piece of trash could launch such grand fireworks!”

“He must have threatened a legendary fireworker into making them for him!”

“Yeah! Or we’re just being shown a hallucination! By the power of his medicine! He definitely threatened a legendary alchemist into making that medicine!”

“Anyway, don’t look! You mustn’t look! Just pretend you didn’t see it! If we do that, we haven’t lost! It won’t count as a loss to that guyyyyyyyy!!”

The venue was now in utter shambles.

Everywhere, screams of agony and cries of mixed joy and sorrow intersected.

The young girl who was the guest of honor had her own starring party ruined.

However, far from being angry, she was frolicking and jumping up and down like a small child.

“I did it, I did it, yaaaay! Le… His fireworks are the beeeeeeeest! Thank you, my Princeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!”

Countless hearts scattered from the girl’s entire body and flew into the sky.

They added even more color to the Leopin fireworks in full bloom.