8. Midterm – 05

A strange thing happened.

No, it may not end with simply the word ‘extraordinary’. In many people’s eyes, this wasn’t an accident, it was like a cataclysmic cataclysm.

Since entering Nineveh, Erekaya, who has always been at the top of her grade and never lost sight of the position of being number one, ended up in second place this time.

And the person who took back the throne from Erekaya was none other than a man named Jin, who they usually looked down on as a commoner who had no manners or common sense.

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As a result that no one expected, the students in Class A opened their mouths like fish.

Erekaya being robbed of first place? It’s none other than that Erekaya Del Pendragon?

Unsurprisingly, most of the students in Class A have been in Nineveh since elementary school.

That’s why everyone knew it well without having to say it hurtingly. What a monstrous talent a woman named Erekaya Del Pendragon is.

The place called Nineveh is a place where all the talented people who will lead the empire in the future gather, and among them, Class A of the high school is a place where the best students of their age are gathered in one place.

Even if you are praised as a genius in the world, or a talented person who is admired by everyone for being born with a talent that might only come out once in 10 years, you are nothing more than an uncommon existence in Nineveh.

Why? It’s because the place called Nineveh is a place where only such people gather.

Here, so-called geniuses are rolling around like stones on the streets, so there’s no reason to make a fuss about it.

There was no need to mention Altina von Rudel Serias, who reached the level of a master at the age of a teenager, or Clare Delpen Mascarena, who was said to be gifted with the greatest magical talent of the present age.

Even Hugo Bright, who had a history of being beaten to death by Jin, was evaluated as being equivalent to a decent knight only in close combat, and he was a talented person who was predicted to have the possibility of becoming a master within 30 years.

And during the 10 years from elementary school to high school, Erekaya did not have a history of missing the first place in class A even once.

What this means is that Erekaya del Pendragon is, at least within the Empire, a woman born with unrivaled talent in martial arts and martial arts.

It has been 10 years since Erekaya ascended to the throne named No. 1. During that time, she had to face many challengers to reclaim her throne, and she never failed in her defense.

Only then did people realize.

The fact that the woman named Erekaya del Pendragon had originally lived in a different world from them.

But today, the undefeated legend she built up was shattered.

The position of No. 1, which had never been taken away over the course of 10 years, was taken away by a commoner with no roots.

By the time everyone was looking at Jin and Erekaya alternately with a look of astonishment, Jin, who was looking at the report card, didn’t have any special thoughts.

‘Actually, it’s a natural result.’

The grades currently hanging on the bulletin board are not simply the scores of the midterm exams. It was a ranking that combined the scores of individual teaching subjects such as monster practice and duel evaluation.

First of all, monster practice. There, Jin is unofficial, but when others hunted Orcs, he hunted a high-level monster called an Ogre.

Even that overwhelmingly, literally turning the ogre into powder.

The fact that Jin caught the ogre was kept silent under the connivance of the teachers, because it was a problem with so many issues involved, but the fact that he caught the ogre was a fact that could not be denied. That’s why Jin was able to get an A+ in the monster practice.

and dueling evaluation. The subject of dueling evaluation has a fairly unique scoring mechanism, and it is generally known that if a weaker student wins against a stronger student, he or she can receive a higher score than usual.

Externally, Hugo Bright was known for having one of the best brute strength among freshmen, while Jin was known as a flat-mouthed braggart who just got lucky and got into Nineveh.

In the end, the weak defeated the strong, with an overwhelming difference in skill that no one could have imagined, so even in the duel evaluation, Jin was able to receive an A+ grade.

In fact, this was the part I didn’t understand. Because, apart from the other students, the students of Nineveh knew that Jin was a descendant of the Seven Heroes, and they were also aware that Jin’s military power surpassed that of Hugo, so why did they give it such a high score?

Well, even so, I had no intention of arguing with the teachers or protesting why they gave me such a high grade.

And in other liberal arts subjects, such as imperial etiquette or tea ceremony, at least in subjects like horseback riding, Jin was able to get an A+.

No, to be honest, it was simpler and easier to get an A+ in those subjects.

Because Jin himself was a person far from culture, but a woman who could be said to be the incarnation of etiquette and culture was stuck in his head.

But even taking all of that into consideration, it wouldn’t mean much if I ruined my midterm grades, but-

In this midterm written test, Jin was able to get a score close to perfect. Even with a much higher score than that Erekaya!

At this unexpected result, not only the other students, but even Altina and Claire, who had studied with Jin, looked at him with an expression of disbelief.

Of course, since Altina and Claire had been studying with him for the past week, they knew very well that he was smarter and smarter than most aristocratic students.

However, being a little smarter at the very least and achieving first place in the midterm exam are two completely different things!

Besides, Jin must have only been in Nineveh for about two months.

But how on earth was Jin able to surpass even that Erekaya, beating other students who had been studying hard here for over 10 years?

Unexpectedly, the answer to that question was very simple.

– Tsk, I really feel like I’ve committed a crime. Since ancient times, a test is a law that must be taken with only one’s own power, so I could not imagine contributing to other people’s cheating in this way.

‘Uh-huh, aren’t you, who is now in my head, also a part of my power? In that sense, I think it’s like taking the test with all my abilities.’

-Anyway, he is an impudent man. If you committed a cheating act, you should feel at least ashamed of it, but you can say it confidently to me in this way.

Erekaya smiled bitterly as she looked at Jin, who said such words without changing the color of her face.

Yes. The reason Jin was able to get first place in the midterm exam was really simple.

Because in his mind was Erekaya himself, who had never missed a grade in Nineveh for the past 10 years!

– under… It’s like this kind of backbone… . The calculation formula in the problem should not be applied in that way. Anyone can see that this is not a trap. You must have posted the question that way to catch idiots like you, but if the teacher sees you now, you can’t help but feel very proud.

– Did you read the history textbook correctly? The place where the battle took place between the Empire and the Principality 240 years ago was not Lihtel, but Kestal. How can you confuse two words that don’t even have that much of a resemblance?

– To be able to take 3 shots with confidence here… . I don’t know what the hell I’ve been studying for the past two weeks. Unless you have a problem with your eyesight, everyone thinks that the correct answer is number 1.

‘… If you’re going to keep admonishing me like that, just take the test instead of me.’

For the past two weeks, when Jin was studying for the exam while looking at his textbook until his eyes fell out, he just laughed at him and didn’t say anything. After the exam started, Jin continued to chatter loudly in his head whenever he wrote an incorrect answer. It was the beginning of giving a hunsu.

He was a bit annoyed that he kept buzzing like mosquitoes in his head even when he couldn’t concentrate, but the person who is teaching him now is a genius who has never missed first place in the 10 years he attended Nineveh. If so, the story is a bit different.

Even if he didn’t put his head through it, he would tell me the answer on his own, but there was no reason for Jin to stop her.

It wasn’t enough to get unexpectedly good marks in the monster practice and duel evaluations, and with Erekaya’s help, not even help, I even got a score close to perfect in the midterm exam.

Would it not be even more strange at this point that he did not receive a grade of first in all of Nineveh?

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And, as if the result was really unexpected, Erekaya just stared blankly at the report card that said 2nd place.

“oh my god. I must have been really shocked.”

“Not even shocked. If you were like me, you would always be in first place, but one day you suddenly fell to second place. If you were like me, would it be okay?”

The other students in Class A were whispering about Erekaya, who had a blank expression on her face.

Well, it’s not like they couldn’t understand Erekaya’s feelings.

Over the past 10 years, she has only maintained first place, but this time, due to an unexpected factor, she ended up receiving second place, so it is not unreasonable that she is making such an expression.

However, Erekaya, who gave Jin the first place, was not shocked or shocked as they expected.

No, rather, she was feeling the exact opposite of the current shock.

Erekaya was just proud of the fact that Jin had surpassed her and took first place in the midterm exam, and she was even feeling a bit proud.

Look at this, Jin was never a student you guys could ignore.

You guys ridiculed him as a simple commoner, a lowly ignorant of culture and manners, but in reality it wasn’t like that.

You will never know for the rest of your life that he is a man of far greater ability than the likes of you who only believe in his lineage, and that he is actually a man of a nobler lineage than the lineage that you all vehemently believe in.

The fact that he took away the position of being number one? It wasn’t a big deal at all.

In the first place, Erekaya didn’t put much value on midterm exams at all.

However, I think it’s funny that I don’t do my best even though I have enough ability to win first place, so I’ve only maintained my first place until now.

Of course, if she had been robbed of her first place by a woman like Altina von Rudel Serias, she might have been quite resentful or annoyed in her own way, but-

If that person was Jin, losing first place like this didn’t seem all that bad.

– This is the beginning.

On the other hand, Erekaya, who was calmly examining her past self, muttered something like that.

It was really long. It took two months to meet Erekaya at the present moment by pretending to be a coincidence, build a relationship, and ultimately stand on equal footing with her.

So far, Jin and Erekaya have never been equal. Not to mention the simple difference in status, because Jean was just an ordinary person, while Erekaya was a noble woman who held everything in her hands.

However, at this moment when Jin surpassed Erekaya in terms of ‘studying’, the current Erekaya would also have no choice but to acknowledge it.

Even if a man named Jin falls behind Erekaya Del Pendragon in all aspects, he is an existence that surpasses her in the field of study.

Since ancient times, love can only be established when both parties are on an equal footing.

If Erekaya also realizes that a man named Jin is not someone who looks up at her from behind like everyone else, but an equal being who can stand by her side, she will have no choice but to harbor some kind of feelings toward him.

No one knows whether Erekaya’s feelings toward Jin are benevolent or ill-willed.

If there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that Erekaya will do her best to make her current self fall in love with Jin someday.

So now is the real start.

Jin and Erekaya, a story that can be called ‘love’ will be released between the two.