This one's crack, yep.


"I am so sorry boss," Tao said, seriously. "I tried."

The principal shook his head, looking out over the athletic field. "You'd better give me all the relevant security footage so I can review it later, but I'm sure you did, Tao. In some ways this was unavoidable."

"I sent M-21 as soon as I realized what Shinwoo was carrying, but don't blame him either, please Boss?" Tao's eyes glanced over to M-21's body where it lay on the ground.

"Of course not," Frankenstein said, smiling reassuringly. "Let me guess: he arrived technically in time, but not before Shinwoo told Master that they were sweet. Poor M-21." He probably wasn't even able to get the words out, faced with Master and not just a sweet, but a gift from his friends. Saying he couldn't have them would have made Master sad.

Tao nodded, despondent. "I told Takeo to try to snipe the package."

Takeo would have been on the rooftop, and was probably still there. Judging from the area of effect, it looked as though at some point either Master or Miss Seira had stood up and turned around to see if anyone knew what was going on. Most likely Master: his abilities could have let him feel the reason this was happening, but he would have looked around for an explanation before resorting to unshielding, thankfully. Frankenstein shuddered to think about his poor master getting hit with this particular emotion from all these victims at once.

Hopefully Takeo would come to on his own before much longer, but if not of them would have to go up there to get him, they'd need him to help move the casualties… there wasn't enough room in the nurse's office. Well, indoors at least. Getting them out of the sun would prevent them from losing any more fluids and becoming dehydrated. "And Master and Miss Seira's bodies were between him and the targets." He looked past Tao to where the three nobles sat on the bench. Yes, Master and Miss Seira were politely ignoring the conduct of those in their vicinity, but Regis couldn't help staring.

"Boss," Tao asked wonderingly. "I shut down the cameras and called you once the wrappers opened," and now he was carefully averting his gaze, "but… how are you still standing?"

"I lived with Master for over a decade. Eventually I built up a tolerance. Once I've gotten them inside, see if there's anyone left in the staff lounge to take the students to the nurse's office."

Frankenstein walked around Tao and smiled. "Master, would you and the others mind finishing your ice cream in my office?" Thank goodness noble elegance meant no sugary drops would escape to land on his clean floor, even on a hot summer day like today.

That was… his brain froze for a minute as Master delicately licked at one of those drops. Part of the problem.

The reason there were so many drops of blood on his formerly pristine campus.

He was going to have to give the janitor a bonus again. Honestly, at this rate he should just buy the man an island the next time he went shopping for one.

Master nodded and stood, Miss Seira and Regis standing to escort him.

Then he reached down and picked up the remainder of the pack.

Oh dear. It was probably a good thing that Frankenstein would have to stay out here assisting with the triage of all the poor passed-out students.

This was going to be even more disruptive to the learning environment than the great ramyeon party. His poor students would be suffering flashbacks and walking into walls for weeks when they saw Master or Miss Seira.

This was why he hadn't told Master how to open and eat a banana. The combination of Master and Miss Seira… his poor, poor helpless teenage students, he thought. Looking down at Shinwoo and the huge grin on his face made him twitch, but honestly this was Frankenstein's own fault.

Popsicles. How could he forget about popsicles.

Forgive me, Master!


You'd think that Frankenstein would have written Rai an explanation of bananas but nope, he's still befuddled the second time he's handed one.

There's a fancomic illustrating why.

The incident where Rai ends up buying the whole school ramyeon is in the Noblesse S webnovel summary.