Spy Classroom Volume 1

Beneath his feet, the canvas was a shredded mess.
“T-Teach, why would you go so far?! You destroyed your precious
painting!”
“Just now, I decided to stop fixating on the past,” he replied with
conviction.
His desire for revenge wasn’t about to just up and vanish, of course. But he
had discovered a new path he could take.
If all that awaited him after exacting his vengeance was a big house with
nobody in it, then that was too lonely a future to bear.
Surely the boss wouldn’t have minded. His master and the rest of his team
would have approved, too.
“You all aren’t qualified to be my enemies,” Klaus casually remarked.
They weren’t his enemies.
He doubted they ever could be.
But perhaps they could become something else…
Life was full of irony.
He had spent the last few months working to avenge his team but in doing
so had obtained an entirely new one.
Klaus gathered up his mangled painting and tore a strip of dried paint off it.
Then, after locating a blank spot on the main hall’s wall, he pressed the dry
paint against it and drew a single line. It was thin, red, and fleeting, yet it was
powerful all the same.
Now he was finished.
Klaus compared the two paintings.
One of them, the violent mess of red paint titled “Family,” was like a
blazing inferno.
The other, painted from a single piece ripped from the first to create
something new, was like a faint lamplight.
“Magnificent.”
Klaus smiled.
He could come up with a name for the new piece later.
Now the room he had once shared with his family was adorned with a
painting of his new team.

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Afterword

It’s nice to meet you. I’m Takemachi, Grand Prize winner of the 32nd
Fantasia Taisho awards.

I submitted this under the title The Spy’s Sweet Temptations—All the Other
Students Are Beautiful Girls. From there, the book went through a number of
revisions, and now it’s in the form you see today.

Incidentally, the reason the actual book’s synopsis turned out so different
from my submission’s is because of conversations I had with my editor. After
analyzing the story’s strengths and weaknesses, I rewrote it to better live up
to the expectations that winning the Grand Prize carries. And if anyone
bought this book hoping to use it as a reference for their own future Fantasia
Taisho submissions, don’t worry. Anything you may have heard about the
editorial department poisoning me or blackmailing me into making changes
is a lie. All they did was offer me delicious coffee and win me over through
gentle persuasion.

If anyone’s curious about the original synopsis, please feel free to check it
out on the Fantasia Taisho website. If you do, you’ll be able to see just how
much work went into the revisions—mostly on my editor’s part.

Starting here, I have some people to thank.
To Tomari, the book’s illustrator, thank you for giving the characters such
great designs. Klaus, in particular, was so cool, he gave me shivers. Some of
the girls didn’t get much of a spotlight this time around, but I’ll make sure to
change that in the next book so your fantastic designs for them get a chance
to shine.
To Asaura, who helped me research the book’s firearms, I can’t thank you
enough for helping get a gun novice like me up to speed. Now that you’ve
taught me how much there is to know, I feel like I’m ready to start learning
more.

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To the Fantasia Taisho selection committee, thank you so much for
awarding me your prestigious Grand Prize. As I mentioned before, the actual
book ended up being pretty different from my submission, and it’s all thanks
to the responsibility with which you entrusted me that I was able to make so
many changes.

And finally, to all my readers. I know that “spies” isn’t the most common
theme for a light novel, so thank you for reading my book anyway. The next
volume should be coming out soon, so I hope to see you again then.

Until next time.
Takemachi

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