102 – admission (1)

The sleep due to Elena’s magic was very short. Haley came in not long after I entered the room.

“Ji, what are you doing right now!!!”

Hailey, who saw me and Elena, blushed and got angry, asking what we were doing in front of the upcoming school entrance ceremony.

If she was still a lady-in-waiting, she would not have been scolded, but Haley was no longer a lady-in-waiting, but a friend of ours. A friend might come into the room to wake up a friend who is sleeping late. I stared blankly at Hayley, who was talking gibberish as she slapped me on the back.

I’m sure there was still time left, but maybe it’s because I didn’t wake up enough. At first, I didn’t understand why Hailey was upset, but when I thought of Elena and I when she opened the door, I started to understand.

With the duvet covered and the two men and women lying on the bed… I understand that it could have been misunderstood.

But contrary to Hailey’s imagination, we were just sleeping, so whatever Haley said while blushing was just laughed off.

Coming out of the room, we thought we shouldn’t be late for the entrance ceremony, so we ate a simple breakfast and got ready to go out. There was still time to spare, but everyone seemed to want to leave quickly.

If Adelia had been there, she wouldn’t have allowed us to have such a carefree breakfast, but since she went back to the north the day before, there were only a few servants and the three of us in the mansion. It was for this reason that I entered Elena’s room from the morning unlike before.

After leaving the mansion, our clothes were unified.

Estelia Academy recommends wearing school uniforms, so we prepared school uniforms in advance according to school rules. When I saw others wearing it on the street, I didn’t feel much inspiration, but now that I’m wearing it myself, I start to feel that I’m going to school.

Haley, in particular, was the most excited among us. She touched the empty sword belt at her waist and her own insignia several times before making an expression that didn’t know if she was laughing or crying. In her case, it was understandable that she was so happy because she almost entered the normal undergraduate school.

Elena, who was watching this from the side, asked her.

“Is it that good?”

“Of course! Elena, when a cadet from the Knights Faculty enters, they are granted the qualification of a semi-knight along with a sword. If not completely, then half of it is like a dream come true. In particular, the sword given to the cadets is a sword directly blessed by the imperial family. Because I do. Haaah… I’m already looking forward to it.”

Haley replied and suddenly hugged Elena.

“thanks.”

It was thanks to Elena that Hailey, who almost went to the Normal Department, was able to enter the Engineering Department. Elena smiled and accepted the thanks from her old friend. The way we hugged each other makes me wonder if Hailey and Elena looked like this.

I didn’t say anything while watching those two, because I had already seen this scene several times since yesterday. Since yesterday, whenever I had a conversation with Elena, I was like this. I had seen it so many times that I was used to it.

It occurred to me that maybe the reason Hailey didn’t look at Elena and me this morning was because she wasn’t used to it. Was it not enough with the image I showed so far? Maybe it’s time to increase the amount of affection I show to Elena.

Hailey will always be by Elena’s side, so it’s good to get used to things like this quickly.

If she becomes a knight after graduating from the academy, she will naturally become Elena’s escort knight, which in a word means becoming a vassal of the Krause family. Because Elena is a member of Krause.

‘Should I give him a sword later?’

No matter how blessed it is, Hailey is happy with the standard swords given to cadets. How will she react if she puts a dwarf-made sword in her hand? Watching her reaction, I suddenly wondered about this.

It’s a dwarf-made weapon. It’s a weapon that only appears in the stories that bards talk about, but the family that carries weapons made of dragon bones doesn’t have one like that. That was enough of a benefit for a vassal of the family.

Of course, it’s unknown as Haley decides where she will go after graduation, but judging from her usual words, this was the most likely. Or be part of the Krauss in some other way. Either way, she has a good chance of becoming a part of our family. I decided to watch this slowly over time.

The two people who were hugging each other suddenly turned their heads to look at me. To be precise, Hayley looked at me first, followed by Elena, but when I looked into Hayley’s eyes, they contained the same emotion as when I spoke to Elena. She must have not forgotten that the elixir was prepared by me.

“Thank you Damian too.”

Rarely did Haley speak to me without using honorifics. Is it because they are going to go to the same school soon? Well, the reason was good. Correspondingly, I erased the honorific and answered as if I were talking to a friend.

“Yeah. Thank you for saying thank you.”

Then Haley laughed and Elena laughed. Finally, I laughed along with the two of them, and we got on the carriage heading to the academy laughing.

***

When the carriage entered the imperial castle, it had to go through a similar inspection as when it first came to Luden, but it was able to enter. There was a family crest engraved on the outside that tells us who we are, but it’s worth it because it’s the imperial castle, not anywhere else.

A new city appeared after passing a circular wall that was not very high, probably to indicate the boundary of the district. It is a place that is often called a school district, and it was the place where we would go around the most during our school life in the future.

At the end of the long road that divides the school district in half, there is a palace-like building. In reality, the palace would be right. Estelia Academy said that the founder’s sleeping quarters were circular, so in a word, it was a palace where the previous emperors stayed. That’s why it was built very close to the main palace.

We got off at the main gate of the academy.

It wasn’t that there weren’t people who rode in a wagon like us, but many people’s attention was directed to this place, and it was one of the two. I was fascinated by Elena’s beauty, or I recognized the pattern of the Duke of Edelweiss on the carriage we just got off.

Whatever it was, it wasn’t our concern, so we lightly ignored people’s gazes and entered the building. But no matter how much it was, I was a little concerned about the men’s stares, so I walked close to Elena.

As I was next to her, Elena naturally put her arm around mine.

“Wow, even though it’s like this, the gaze doesn’t diminish at all. Anyway, what about men?”

“Is that something Damian can do? Damian is a man too.”

“I’m fine with it.”

Because I don’t throw such a blatant gaze at the person who owns it. I know very well that I am in my prime age, but I don’t know how I’m going to live a social life in the future when I can’t take care of my gaze like that.

Damian in my heart is wriggling at the male students’ blatant stares. It wasn’t as exaggerated as before, but it seemed that the eyes they were sending now were unpleasant. But this was the same for me too, so after a long time I couldn’t suppress my madness.

His eyes were filled with the right mixture of madness and rationality.

To be honest, it’s embarrassing to live with. It would be more appropriate to say that it was just enough pressure to cause one to shrink a little, just like one’s body automatically shrinks when one sees the angry face of a wild beast. I just turned my gaze to the guys who were staring at Elena too intently.

The guys who made eye contact with me turned their eyes away, perhaps realizing that I was there. Anyway, there are guys who know what to do with action.

He wasn’t crazy and he didn’t spread his life in the middle of the street as the students walked, so many people were still looking at this place. Still, I felt a lot better than before, maybe because I got rid of the guys who caused unpleasant discomfort.

When we arrived at the auditorium where the entrance ceremony was going to be held, the seats that were not available were divided by faculty. Unfortunately, I have to part with Elena here.

“Damian, then see you again when it’s over.”

“After the ceremony, let’s meet at the fountain we saw earlier. Hailey, you too.”

We made an appointment like that and tore to our respective seats.

Haley, who has the same faculty as me, decided to keep a little distance until the ceremony was over. When I asked why, he said that useless rumors would arise from the first day of the entrance ceremony if members of the opposite sex were too attached to each other. Come to think of it, it made sense, so I decided to follow her advice.

“Then where should I sit now?”

Having gone all the way to Hailey and all alone, I had to decide where to sit in this large auditorium. Even though the seats were divided by faculty, there was no specific seat, so you could sit wherever you wanted.

“Well?”

As I was looking around, thinking about where to sit, I suddenly felt a tingling sensation, as if I had been struck by static electricity. It wasn’t actually static electricity, it was a magical energy resembling lightning. I wondered where this magical energy was coming from, and when I turned my head, it was from a boy who had settled down beforehand.

It was a boy I had never seen before, but for some reason, the boy’s blue eyes were staring at me.

I walked over and sat down next to the boy.

When I sat down next to him, the boy turned his head to the front. I sat down with the thought of filming halfway through, but I guess this was the correct answer. As expected in the novel, the guy named Reinhardt was a guy with very poor social skills.