14. School Festival – 01

Erekaya at the Amusement Park… No, after enjoying a date that was not a date with Kaya, the final exam week came in the blink of an eye.

Comprehensive evaluation of written and practical skills over 5 days, starting on Monday morning and ending on Friday afternoon.

In the meantime, I met Count Serias, or in the aftermath of using Exceed, my body was weak and I stared at the ceiling in the infirmary. I didn’t write it, but it didn’t matter.

Because there was a living answer sheet in my head that spewed out the correct answer tick-tock-tick-tick-tick-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock-in-my-head.

According to my expectations, I think that the written part will be enough to get a score close to perfect.

In fact, quite a few people around me knew well that I was busy hanging out rather than preparing for the exam, so I thought about just taking this final exam in moderation, but I tried my best because good grades were essential to stick to the student council in the future. and decided to take the test.

– … To be precise, isn’t it just that you wrote down the answer I was calling you instead of giving you strength?

I passed the grumbling of a ghost muttering in my head about what else I was dissatisfied with.

The written test, which lasted endlessly like a marathon from Monday to Wednesday, was passed lightly, and only the practical test from Thursday to Friday remained-

“Well… .”

Unexpectedly, the practical exam also yielded disappointing results.

“… exam is over Didn’t it only take 1 minute and 30 seconds to hunt the troll?”

As Jin looked at the troll wriggling under his feet with a truly bewildered gaze, the professor in charge opened his mouth, looking at Jin with a slight but bewildered expression.

“No matter how immature I am, to think that a freshman who has just entered school can beat a troll with just two fists… It’s really unrealistic.”

Although the troll was set up for final exam evaluation, the purpose of this evaluation was not to defeat the troll.

It was an evaluation that focused on what kind of countermeasures a student could come up with against a troll and how much he could counter it, not a test designed to beat the troll head-on like a guy named Jin.

Of course, the first grader in front of me was a student on a different level from the average student.

Although it was not known externally, the guy named Jin was a descendant of the Seven Heroes, and he was like a monster who turned an ogre into powder in his first monster practice.

So it’s no surprise that Jin manages to win against trolls and the like at best. On the contrary, it would have been even more surprising if Jin had not been able to stand up to the trolls and suffered a disgraceful defeat.

However, what the professor was focusing on was not Jin’s victory over the troll itself.

‘It’s bold. It reminds me of a seasoned hunter who has experienced this kind of bare-handed combat countless times.’

Although they fall short of ogres, trolls are also predators that rank high in the natural pyramid.

And there is only one reason why trolls can reign as predators in nature: their incredible regenerative powers.

Not just the concept of healing injuries, but a truly fraudulent regenerative ability that restores everything to its original state, even if one of the limbs is blown off or a fatal defect occurs in the body.

And that regenerative power is one of the main things that makes trolls extremely difficult to deal with for those who encounter them for the first time.

Even if it loses a limb or suffers an injury that would make a human scream in excruciating pain, a troll never hesitates to attack its enemies.

This is because the main tactic of trolls is to give their own flesh and take the bones of others, trusting only in their own regenerative powers in the first place.

As such, no matter how young they were trained in how to hunt monsters in their family, students who lacked practical experience would have a hard time dealing with trolls.

However, Jin was different.

Before he dealt with the troll, the first thing he prioritized was to smash both of the troll’s legs and then smash his head until all of his regenerative power was exhausted.

It takes away mobility first and continuously attacks vital points that rapidly drain regeneration power. It could not be anything but the standard method among the standard methods for attacking the monster called the troll.

… Except for one minor flaw.

“Oooh!”

“I think I’m going to vomit… .”

The students who finished their exams early did not hide their expressions of horror or nausea when they saw the trolls spread out in front of Jinui.

Well, that’s normal too. When will aristocratic students from noble births see the terrible sight of a troll’s head half smashed and crushed?

However, Jin, the professor and the person responsible for making the troll look like that, didn’t even have a slight movement on his face. As if he had witnessed this countless times before.

‘It’s not skillful, it’s used to it. The difference is quite large.’

I’m really curious. What kind of things did he experience before entering Nineveh, so he is showing such composure?

And no matter how much he is a monster, how did he develop the determination to trample on the head and take away life without a moment’s hesitation?

However, no matter how much he is a professor, the range in which he can interfere with students is limited, so he put his curiosity in a corner of his mind and opened his mouth to Jin in a calm tone.

“Exam No. 13, true, perfect score.”

It seemed that the rankings in this final exam were also clearly determined who would win first place.

****

Saturday, when all the written and practical tests were over.

All kinds of exams were over, so the academy festival, which could be called the flower of the academy, was going to start in earnest from Monday.

Of course, for me, it was not such a good news.

Because normal students spend the weekend playing outside their brains under the pretext that this semester’s exams are over, and then the school festival is over, but I, as an executive of the student council, will be busy preparing for the school festival over the weekend.

Even now, I sit leisurely on the bench in front of the dormitory, but about an hour later I was put in a really shitty position that I had to run to the student council room for a meeting related to the school festival.

“Damn it, why the hell do you need a clerk when you’re going to have a kid’s play meeting anyway?”

– Don’t complain about things that have already been decided. Besides, for whatever reason, isn’t it really nice to have an excuse to face me at this point in time? I feel like our relationship has been progressing rapidly lately, so I should not miss this opportunity and continue to make progress.

When Erekaya responded in a carefree tone to my meaningless grumbling, I opened my mouth to her in a suspicious tone.

“By the way, you at this point… So that’s Kaya. Haven’t you noticed something strange lately?”

After Erekaya asked to call herself ‘Kaya’, I decided to refer to Erekaya as Kaya.

To be honest, referring to future Erekaya and present Erekaya in this way was quite cumbersome and irritating.

I was thinking that there was a need to distinguish the two in some way, but when Erekaya at the moment asked to call herself Kaya, I accepted the offer saying that I was a good person.

– Strange? what the heck

“no… I think it’s faster to find something that isn’t strange. It’s true that I’m sick of dating like you said, but even from my point of view, I think you can tell for sure that the relationship between me and Kaya isn’t normal, right?”

According to the information I’ve gathered so far, Kaya is both the daughter of Pendragon and the student council president of Nineveh.

The background is the background, the status is the status, and no one dared to approach her for the past few years when she was studying at Nineveh because of her unique coolness that allowed neither men nor women to approach.

Even though I was an ass who had no friends, I wanted to make friends, but if I became an ass because of this crazy personality, Kaya was pushing others out of her own will.

In other words, even if we were the same assa, the two of us were of different degrees in the first place.

But Kaya like that smiles brightly when she sees me, and even though she proposed to me first, she obediently followed me on a date at an amusement park, and even asked me to call her by her nickname?

No matter how much I was an asshole who didn’t care about dating eunuchs, I could tell for sure that this was clearly at the level of crossing the line!

“… But why?”

But no matter how hard I try, I can’t find the reason. What had happened with Kaya so far was that they had private conversations a few times, went shopping together to buy supplies for the student council, gave her a necklace as a gift, and went on a date at an amusement park.

Even if the pace is fast, it is too fast. It took less than a month to start talking to Kaya and exchange gifts together, and it took less than a month to get approval for a nickname from there.

And it’s a good month, and I can really count on my fingers the number of times we actually talked or spent time together during that month.

Perhaps… I don’t know why, but somewhere I don’t know, Kaya might have encountered something that made her fall in love with me.

And as a result, if it’s something that makes me have a crush on me that I can’t understand, everything is explained clearly, but-

– Well… I don’t think so.

“What?”

– Don’t get me wrong. It’s because I don’t think I have any special feelings for you at this point.

In Erekaya’s tone as she said that, I felt that for some reason there seemed to be some kind of displeasure.

– Anyway, men say that if a woman treats them just a little bit, it’s because she’s in love with them. When you think of common sense, why would you fall for a guy you’ve only known for about a hundred days and with whom you haven’t even talked to each other properly?

“no… But lately, we dated each other and even asked each other to call each other by nicknames… ”

– It must be because I’m always an executive of the same student council, so I don’t want to blush with you. So don’t get any weird thoughts. From my point of view, there is still a long way to go between me and you at this point.

Erekaya said that with a voice that seemed determined indeed. Whether it was really unpleasant for her to judge that I had already seduced Kaya, she was making that assertion even with a faint drop at the end of her voice.

… But what on earth is he so offended about, what is he so angry about? Didn’t even start a full-fledged relationship, but was it so annoying that I was already drinking kimchi soup?

“… Was it just my self-consciousness? Well, common sense makes it impossible for something like that to happen.”

As she was scratching the back of her head in embarrassment at the thought of stepping on a false leg, Erekaya sighed cautiously as if relieved.

– Yes, everything is simply your delusion. So don’t even think about taking the word out of your mouth, such as whether or not you have a crush on me at this point. After all, women hate men who have such baseless confidence the most.

“OK got it.”

I calmly accepted Erekaya’s advice, not hers. Erekaya has never lied to me, let alone lied to me, so this must not be a lie either.

– So keep that in mind. That other women should never be trusted until I say it’s okay. This applies not only to me at the present time, but also to women like Altina von Rudel Serias and Claire Delphine Mascarena.

“no… Why are they talking about them again… ”

After hearing the prophecy from Celica that my relationship with women is promiscuous, for some reason, when a story related to another woman leaks out of my mouth, I keep feeling bland…

– Isn’t that what’s important right now? The point I’m trying to make is that I’m the only woman you can call an ally at this moment. I am the only one who understands and is the companion of you, the man who wants to save the world at the end of time.

– So remember. The fact that in the present you, the only woman you can trust is me.

“… yes.”

As always, Erekaya gave me ‘advice’, and I nodded as always.

Because I firmly believe that she will never say anything wrong to me.