Just like that, the sudden disaster came to an end with Hagun Academy engulfed in flames, numerous students and teachers collapsing unconscious, Wahlstein's corpse left behind, and the attackers retreating.
Afterward, news reports of the attack on Hagun Academy, accompanied by footage of the campus burning fiercely, appeared across the major news outlets and became known to people throughout the country.
At the same time, the attackers made no attempt to conceal themselves. They openly revealed their identities as representatives of the other academies, causing their photographs to appear one after another in the news reports.
Upon learning that the representative competitors from the academies other than Hagun had caused the incident together and committed unprecedented atrocities, not only was Hagun Academy enraged, but the chairmen of the other six academies were also shocked and furious. With the higher-ups of the "Alliance" alerted as well, everyone involved in the incident declared that they would immediately investigate the matter, revoke the six students' qualifications as representative competitors, even strip them of their qualifications as student knights, arrest them, and put them on trial.
For a time, people throughout the country learned the names of the six attackers and paid close attention to, and fervently discussed, the incident.
Everyone believed that the attackers would receive severe punishment, be arrested, and bear responsibility for what they had done.
Naturally, there was no way these people could continue participating in the Seven Star Sword Festival.
That was what everyone thought.
Yet, just as the people of the nation were passionately discussing the incident, someone stepped forward and appeared in reports across all the major news outlets.
"Actually, I was the one who planned this incident."
The person who openly declared himself the mastermind before the entire nation was Tsukikage Makaba.
He was the incumbent