127 – Turns out engineering genius (1)

No matter how close the season is to summer, the chill of dawn is still cold.

Compared to the cold wind experienced in the north, even if it was only the blood of a bird’s feet, it was enough to cool the heat of the hot body by moving the body. I didn’t shed a single drop of sweat, but the wind felt welcome.

The morning glow in the distance tells us that the night is over. In line with this, Reinhardt and I, who were sitting on the floor of the gymnasium, got up at the same time.

It’s dawn, and soon the other kids will start coming out for morning exercises. I don’t know if it was before. The children’s sense of distance between me and Reinhardt had greatly diminished. If I was sitting here like this, I could clearly see the future where I would be caught by the children and watch the training.

It’s not that I can’t do it, but is it because I moved my body a lot unexpectedly at dawn, or is it a reaction to not following my usual sleeping pattern? My eyelids weren’t heavy, but I still wanted to go back to my room more.

Reinhardt was a guy whose expression didn’t change, so I couldn’t tell if he was sleepy or not, but it felt like he was following me when I was going back to the dormitory. That guy and I had similar goals for training, so maybe it was because we were sufficiently satisfied with the training we did at dawn.

“Are you going to come out at this time in the future?”

On the way to the dormitory, Reinhardt asked me this. The sparring at dawn must have been quite satisfactory. Is it the influence of the time zone called dawn? Both me and him swung the sword quite emotionally, so it felt a little different than usual.

I shook my head and replied.

“No. Today was an exception. I think it’s right for me to sleep at that time.”

“Sleep patterns aren’t something that can be easily changed. Got it.”

In fact, Reinhardt readily agreed, probably because he knew that the cause of the confrontation at dawn was something other than time. It seems like he noticed that something had changed in me, but Reinhardt didn’t bother to mention it.

All I could say was that the early morning Dalian was fun.

I think I liked it more than the couplets I had done before. Is it because one of the geniuses of the century, Reinhardt, recognized it? It didn’t seem like there was anything wrong with what I was worrying about. I felt like I had been praised for something, so I felt more relaxed than before.

We walked down the street talking about what to eat for breakfast. Shortly after we talked, we were able to unify the menu, but the food that came out in the end was stew, probably because both he and I had been exposed to cold winds since dawn.

“Hey, hey. Get up.”

“No, what time is it…”

“Seven o’clock. Let’s go eat breakfast.”

When we got back to the dormitory, we woke Richard from his sleep and went downstairs. At first, Richard pulled over the blanket as if he didn’t like it, but after a while, Richard got up on his own and prepared to go out. It was because he knew that if he didn’t wake up now, we would abandon ourselves and go to eat first.

Originally, sleep is the law of wanting to sleep more when someone else wakes you up. That’s why Richard’s first rejection like this always happened. After always saying that, when Reinhardt and I wash our bodies, he finishes getting ready to go out.

It’s been over two months since they lived in the dormitory, but they couldn’t have gotten closer.

Basically, he was Richard with a gentle side, and it wasn’t that he didn’t have any affinity, so it took a moment for him to melt into us. Richard, who was shy and respectful to the other children at first, has been with us for a month, and the quiet child like before has been erased.

It’s dark and silent. Originally, the purer it is, the easier it is to be stained.

“Did everyone eat stew today? Was it really cold outside? I heard a lot of wind noise from the window at night.”

“Maybe? It’s cool.”

“Still, it’s better not to wear outerwear. Even if the wind is strong, the sun will be hot. If you bring it, you’ll feel cumbersome and sweaty.”

“Um…but I’ll take care of it. If it’s hot, I can take it off. If it’s cumbersome, I can put it in a sub-space.”

We ate stew and talked like we always do. Listening to these conversations, you can tell that it’s not just Richard who has changed. The taciturn Reinhardt has also changed, and if I have changed, then I have changed.

If it’s obvious, it’s obvious, but I’m surprised by this fact every time.

Richard, who had emptied the bowl before he knew it, said.

“By the way, is everyone getting ready? Sooner or later, it’ll be the Holy Spirit Festival. They say that you can participate in this festival without any grade limit, so there’s no way you’re missing out on it.”

“I’m always ready.”

As if agreeing with my words, Reinhardt nodded. He was always training, so that meant that it was enough.

The other kids must have been busy preparing elixirs or new weapons during the tournament, but that didn’t apply to me and Reinhardt. There were sacred items of the Muguya family, and the elixir was meaningless at the moment unless it was something outside the standard like Dragon Heart.

A prestigious family is not a prestigious family for nothing. For us, preparation was up to the individual, not paying attention to other external things. Perhaps, the same applies to Richard. The guy knows it, but he just said it.

By the way, Holy Ghost…

Holy Spirit Festival

It is one of the national foundation day events held in Estelia. Originally, it wasn’t a problem for me at this point, but as Richard said, this time I participated in it, so it became one of the problems that I couldn’t just ignore.

Since it is an academy that gathers the best talent in the empire, the main festival is a duel between students. I know that original freshmen like first-year students can’t participate, but I don’t know if it’s the aftermath of the secluded swordsman’s inauguration as dean. It is said that the standard has been relaxed as all grades have been allowed to participate.

Thanks to that, in the original work, I had to pay in advance what I had to do when I was in the second grade.

Unlike the original work, several incidents have occurred before, so it seems to have been conscious of the current first graders, who are called the Golden Horsemen, who can be said to be the protagonists of the incident. there is no way Well, there are benefits you can get the more you get good grades, so there’s nothing wrong with that.

I looked into the eyes of Richard and Reinhardt. Reinhardt, even so, the flames of struggle were burning in Richard’s eyes as he looked at me.

Heh heh heh… Look at this?

Seeing the quiet guy looking at me with his eyes on fire made me feel strange. Originally, I know that Richard wasn’t the type to enjoy fighting, but what was his motivation? I wondered about it. But I didn’t ask Richard about him.

Like Reinhardt did, there was no need to know such trivial reasons.

When we meet in competitions, we just have to do our best.

‘Well, it can’t be helped if I meet Elena in the middle.’

I’ll empty the bowl too. We got up from our seats.

***

After the lecture, I went to Eltman’s lab as promised the night before.

I wasn’t alone, I didn’t know the structure of the Ministry of Magic, and when Eltman invited me the day before, Elena was listening by her side, so of course the way to the lab was with Elena. I didn’t make an appointment to meet somewhere in advance, but when I entered the main building of the Ministry of Magic, I met Elena, who was waiting for me there.

In the first place, I was planning to talk with Eltman alone today, but this meeting with him wasn’t the only one, and I was able to look around the Ministry of Magic with Elena’s guidance in order to learn the ways of the Ministry.

I didn’t see anything that looked particularly strange. If you feel mysterious when you see it with your own eyes, the things you saw last time on the clock tower street are more amazing. There was nothing like that here. In a way, it was only natural that the denomination that taught students needed only what was necessary.

Instead, there was more magic unfolding in the hands of people than the presence or absence of mysterious objects. The sight of professors demonstrating magic in front of students on the podium reminded me of scenes I had only seen in old movies, so my eyes kept going.

What is the magician’s class? Curious, I carefully looked into the other classrooms, and Elena smiled a little when she saw me like this.

I smiled at him, but I couldn’t look away easily. Because I wasn’t a wizard. It was an area that I couldn’t do, so there was a point where I admired it regardless of the state.

“Sometimes looking at Damian, I wonder if he wanted to be a wizard.”

“Is that so? To be honest, if I could become a wizard, I’d like to. But if I were a wizard, I might have reacted in the opposite way to martial arts. Why is there no way in this world to be able to do both of those things? A magician. Something isn’t cool. ?”

Elena laughed at that, then poked me in the side and said:

“It’s better to dig a well, even if it’s just one well. Let’s think about it after becoming a master.”

“Are you taking medicine now…?”

Elena stuck out her tongue instead of answering. These questions and answers belonged to my father and the Duke of Joheim, but we do the opposite. I knew that Elena was impersonating her father as a joke, but strangely I wasn’t annoyed. It just looks cute as if my bean pods are tightly attached.

“Hey, first of all, it’s right to walk all the paths given in front of me.”

I nodded gently to Elena’s words and reached out to her side, moving my fingers. It was a small revenge. Elena’s body was easily tickled, so even the slightest stimulation moved her body greatly. I managed to stop the laughter from coming out of my mouth, but it seemed that I didn’t know that I would counterattack like this.

“Chi, shameful… Where’s the sudden surprise attack…”

I let go of Elena’s words and grabbed her hand. Even though they were joking around, maybe she didn’t like holding hands. I smiled at him, but Elena just quietly turned her head away, probably embarrassed.

After a brief tour, we arrived close to Eltman’s laboratory. The surroundings were not as noisy as I thought. Rather, it felt very few people, but it seems that the situation has not yet been sorted out by the imperial army.

Come to think of it, I don’t think I saw Orcus today, but I can only speculate carefully that it might have something to do with it.

I haven’t even entered yet, but I’m already starting to feel something empty. I stood in front of the lab door and knocked on the door with my fist a couple of times.

“Oh, yes. Come in.”

The response came straight back. It was Eltman’s voice. A voice that still seemed livable let us know that the imperial army hadn’t come here yet. As soon as he gave his permission, I opened the door.

I thought it was empty, but there were only three people in the lab. Where have all the others gone? Even though I knew that the person Eltman had captured was a professor here, I was ignorant of the rest of the characters, so I have no way of knowing.

By the way. Even if it was Eltman, the other two were faces I knew, so I couldn’t figure out why they were here. They were faces that Elena also knew, so her face hardened for a moment at the presence of the two.