Morality Question - Canon Bump

[mahou_shounen]

So uh... question for everyone here. Say there was a powerful book, hidden away in a fairly accessible area to a few people. Let's call it "The Manual of Awesome Volume 1" presuming there is a second or third volume. In game terms this book will shoot you over the level of the Final Boss to the point that you could poke him and he dies.

It's like skipping 11 levels in Dungeons and Dragons.

Or killing Voldemort in book 1.

Would you even attempt to go get it? Knowing full well that someone is going to read it JUST to pass an exam?

Comments

[quicksavensmoke]

technically i guess what people wanna do with stuff like that is their own deal. They're the ones that have to live with short cuts right?
i'm just saying - i'd rather do all the work and know what to do later on then cheat just to pass something once - then not know itwhen i really need to.

as much as i can't believe i'm sayin' that.

[mahou_shounen]

Well it's not really ours, it's supposed to be a legendary book kept at the bottom of the Library Island. And apparently it's supposed to give you a super power up just by reading it.

I've been trying to teach them English but the lessons aren't sticking. And if they fail, I'll be sent home.

[fortheworld]

As someone with experience with precognition, yes.

Even if it's just for an exam it will doubtless have many other uses.

[darklycharming]

Voldemort?

[mahou_shounen]

Hmm, well I dunno. It still seems like something that could be certainly used for something else at times...

[mahou_shounen]

It's a joke. A character from one of my books that I read a few years ago.

[fortheworld]

Well exactly; rather than leaving it to rot in some tomb, why not put it to good use?

[mahou_shounen]

Mmm. Well, I don't know how much use I'll be to my students. I did something that left me kinda baseline normal for three days since I kept looking for easy solutions.

[fortheworld]

[um.]

I'm afraid I have little familiarity with your situation, child. Could you explain further?

[mahou_shounen]

Well um...

[locked]

Promise not to spread it around? Basically I'm a mage, a boy wizard. I sealed my powers for three days until the end of the weekend before the test. And they want to go down into the Library Island dungeon tonight.

Without my magic, I'm basically a 10 year old.

[fortheworld]

...And you have students?

[mahou_shounen]

Regular students from a all-girls school in Japan. Yes. None of them save for Asuna-san know about my magic, and only a select few on the staff like Takamichi, and the Headmaster.

[fortheworld]

...Q-Quite the situation...

[I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ANY MORE]

[mahou_shounen]

It kinda is. And worst of all, I have no idea what KIND of book it is. All the girls say is that it's a powerful artefact of some sort.

[fortheworld]

W-Well, in that case, is it even worth searching for it? You have no guarantee it's there...

[and there's no way her conscience will take 'throw a ten-year old into a dungeon']

[mahou_shounen]

Well, it seems like everyone's determined to do so. So I can't let them down. Besides, they can't go to the Library Island at night without a teacher, and I'm the only one they want with them.

[Bad ideas R us, 2003, Ken Akamatsu.]

[fortheworld]

Then, as their teacher, is it not your duty to prevent them from taking such unnecessary risks?

[mahou_shounen]

Well I um... [read, he's a doormat.] I tried at least to convince them otherwise? They're a bunch of headstrong people, the Baka Rangers and Co.

[fortheworld]

As a teacher, you should have final authority on the matter!

[TEN YEAR OLDS]

[mahou_shounen]

I tried, really! But they're determined to pass and even though we've managed to pull up grades somehow, I don't know why they're so determined all of a sudden. It's like something happened, and I don't know what.

[ghostshippingly]

That sounds like an irresponsible use of a magical artefact... and it's cheating.

[fortheworld]

...


...Find an adult?

[mahou_shounen]

If it's cheating, then why would they leak out the rumor in the first place?

[mahou_shounen]

I suppose I'll have to find Takami...wait, no, he's not on campus right now. And I don't know where the headmaster lives... and I can't go to Shizuna-sensei either because she doesn't know about magic...

[fortheworld]

[...sob.]

It's wrong to send children as young as yourself into such dangerous environments. I-If you're trying to raise their grades wouldn't simply studying be a better alternative?