Episode 37. first button (1)

The new semester at Kiruna Magic School starts in April, but the new students live in the dormitory from March and receive help from their seniors.

New students who do not know where school facilities are located or how to register for classes are given a month to adjust to school life.

“Elma, there must be a student named Yuri among the freshmen. It must be the magic department, but take care of him for a while.”

The department of magic that represents the Ministry of Magic.

It is not a department with a special purpose like the Department of Magical Linguistics, but it is a place where the general contents of magic are taught, and it is also the place where the most students are gathered in the Ministry of Magic.

However, many students flocked to it because of the perception that it was passable, and even though it was a large department, it was famous as the most difficult department to enter in the Ministry of Magic.

Even though Yuri had never been formally trained in magic, she managed to enter the Department of Magic because she had excellent mana sensitivity, just like Mint students did.

Such Yuri will achieve the miracle of being the head of the Department of Sorcery in the second semester of the first year, and as a result, the faculty’s judgment will prove correct.

“Are you a Yuri student? He is the student I liked the most among the freshmen.”

“He is the main character of this novel.”

The professors who had been struggling during the freshman selection period are now back to their daily routine, and the class preparation period is finalized.

I was getting Meriel and Elma’s corrections, collecting and arranging the materials for the class that Vice-Professor Hadley had instructed me to take.

“Mister, Auntie Hadley seems so obvious.”

“I mean.”

I took a total of 2 classes during the first semester.

One is the class in charge of Magical Linguistics and Class E. It is a class that can be conducted because it is a small department with a small total number of students. Three times a week, one professor is attached to the class and takes responsibility for guiding the students.

And the second class… . ‘Magical Building Basics’.

This class, which is mandatory for first-year students of the Department of Magical Linguistics, is a lecture that enables students to practice magic without error by understanding the logic and thinking system of magic and correctly understanding the meaning of magician languages.

In other words, it was a class that seemed to require the opposite path to sensuous free magic… .

“Assistant Professor Hadley would think he was overdoing it.”

“I really don’t like her.”

I never thought that such an important class would be entrusted to a first-time professor, and a professor with a lot of hatred like me.

‘I thought that at least I would be put in a non-mainstream class that no one wanted to take.’

Hadley seemed to think that I would not be able to teach this material properly.

Certainly, it was not unreasonable for me to expect that I, who mainly uses and teaches free magic, lacks expertise in general magic.

Since Ian was a soldier who had only learned magic at the level of an undergraduate and was put into the battlefield, there is no way he could properly lead a class that requires high thinking and delicacy.

I thought that if the class collapsed like that, Ian’s reputation, which had been praised for his impressive teaching skills in supplementary classes, would be greatly damaged.

In the end, I could see Hadley’s black heart that I would be remembered by students as an incompetent professor who slandered the school and a loser who blamed society for his own flaws.

Besides, it seems that in a class that teaches magic formulas, there will be no time to preach free magic, so I entrusted this class to me.

“… I have to step on hope.”

There is one thing the vice-professor is firmly mistaken about.

This school doesn’t teach free magic at all, so I look like a fan of free magic, and I’ve never said that the magic ceremony itself is bad.

Working hard on preparing for class without days off, I was convinced.

‘This class will further enhance my status.’

* * *

March is the welcome period for new students.

March, a month in which seniors kindly explain and answer questions one by one to chicks and newcomers who don’t know anything about school and dormitories.

There were no make-up classes in March. In effect, it is an extension of vacation, and a time when new faces flood in and the school is full of energy.

Early spring, when seniors who are tired of assignments enjoy a little freedom by helping newbies at this time.

The atmosphere at the Paideia dormitory was definitely like that. but.

“Hey, what is this guy who doesn’t greet seniors even after seeing them?”

“Is that white hair? He’s a bit of a weird kid, Davi senior. You share the same room as me, but you say you are studying magic, but you are meditating without opening books?”

“I can’t. hey hey! what is your name?”

Unlike the Paideia dormitory, the atmosphere at Agoge during the freshman welcome period was as cold as a flower spring.

Agoge in March is the time when tough seniors kill the spirit of newcomers… .

It is only after adjusting to school life to some extent that the same graders know how to build forces and show courage.

‘If I can’t understand that kind of atmosphere, I’d rather stay quietly, and that white hair that’s not doing that.’

“… Me? I am glass. Who is your senior?”

“Why are you so confident when you don’t know where the bathroom is here, let alone my name? You don’t have the attitude to learn, don’t you have any manners towards your seniors?”

“Yeah?”

“Hey, don’t meditate in front of others while wearing our department badge. What kind of theology are you? I’m not advertising that I can’t learn magic, but one commoner is ruining the whole image of the department. At the very least, I should live without causing harm to the innocent magician students. Isn’t it?”

… Yuri, who was left alone in the hallway after being scolded so much, smiled undeterred by him.

‘As expected, I’m the only one who knows about free magic in this school!’

Meditation is a practice taught by her master to clarify mental images and increase the clarity of free magic.

The nagging of a dark-haired senior who left without revealing her name would have been quite hurtful to the average student, but Yuri rather had expectations for such a reaction.

How surprised everyone will be when I show off my free magic… !

“Yes, if I want to let everyone know what Master thinks of being human, I can’t give in to adversity like this!”

Yuri, who clenched her fists by herself, sat down on a bench near the dormitory to focus more on herself, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath.

‘Let’s focus more on me, and don’t be shaken by anything.’

“… uh? look at him He’s the first one I’ve ever seen.”

“I know? You’re in first grade, do you meditate?”

Maybe 30 minutes passed? Two female seniors started approaching Yuri.

He closed his eyes and kept his expressionless expression, but Yuri thought that the seniors were also coming to say something.

“Wow! he’s cute! Very small!”

“Harin please! Did you know you’ve already been labeled a pervert by newcomers!?”

“Wouldn’t it be true seniority to enjoy that? Ji-on, you too, take an interest in the first graders.”

“You are going too far… .”

Having had a creepy conversation, the two sat down next to Yuri.

“hi? i’m harin Are you trying to learn free magic too?”

“… Yeah!?”

free magic?

When I opened my eyes in surprise at the completely unexpected sound, the red-haired female senior was smiling brightly.

“Why are you bullying the kid! I’m surprised! I was concentrating.”

“Trouble, this is all warm attention and encouragement. what is your name?”

“I am Yuri… .”

“cute!”

At that time, a female senior named Ji-on apologized to Yuri and dragged Harin-senior.

“Oh sorry. do what you do He’s a bit shy.”

“Ah, um, that… . Wait!”

“yes?”

Yuri asked the two of them in a trembling voice.

“Does this school also teach free magic?”

“ah… .”

The seniors, who exchanged glances with each other for a moment, said after thinking for a while.

“Isn’t there Professor Ian in the Department of Linguistics?”

“Handsome.”

“Be quiet. Anyway, free magic isn’t a formal subject at this school… . There is only one professor who teaches that.”

‘… Before long, most humans had forgotten about this magic. Free magic now remains only in stories and legends, and no one is teaching it.’

‘Master. Then, am I the only human in the world who can use free magic!?’

‘yes… . ‘Cause I’m a dragon It’ll be only you now, at least at that school.’

“ah… .”

In Yuri’s mind, which was full of conviction that she was the main character of this school, only one thought remained.

‘Who the hell is Professor Ian?’

* * *

It’s been a week since freshmen entered the dormitory.

It was a leisurely holiday, so I called Elma in the morning.

“Tell me what Yuri is going through from now on.”

“Suddenly? Teacher, are you perverted?”

“This is not the time to play around. Today is the day you can see the first performance of the main character.”

Conflict between David Vienka, a senior in the Department of Magic, and Yuri, a freshman, who always tries hard but fails to escape from the agoge dormitory every semester due to vaguely insufficient grades.

Darby regards Yuri as a thorn in her eyes as she continues to meditate without even opening the magic book.

In words, Dabi is a character who laughs at inferior students, presses them down, and forgets their feelings of inferiority.

Yuri sees through the darkness in Davi’s heart, and challenges Davi to a magic duel for the first time as a freshman.

In the interest of all the Agoge students, Yuri wins against Darby with free magic.

Davi Bianca was by no means an easy opponent, so Yuri wins a dramatic, hard-fought victory.

Through this battle, Yuri became more confident and convinced of the value of free magic, learned a sense of battle, and grew rapidly afterwards.

“So this is the beginning of a legend.”

“Oh oh… ! That would be fun. I will broadcast live!”

“yes. Please be realistic.”

I started drinking warm tea, sitting calmly at my desk and waiting for Elma’s relay.

However, the first words she heard after 30 minutes were… . It was completely different from what I expected.

“what?”

* * *

“Davi senior, that Yuri is really strange! Even though senior Davi said something, he kept saying that?”

Davi Bianca, who hates inferior students, has always been in a low mood, but in the last two months he has been more dissatisfied than usual to the point that he realizes that there is still more down there.

That free magic that is popular among bug-like kids who hate studying and hard work, to Dabi, who was staring at a book with her eyes wide open, just looking at it made her stomach ache.

‘Can you call that kind of magic?’

It’s just a joke.

‘Can you call something like that a study, with few books written by proper scholars?’

“It’s not the kid’s problem… . This is Professor Ian and the idiots wagging their tails on the sidelines are the problem!”

If he called free magic magic, all of these things he had been forced to study seemed to lose their value.

I can say I’m a wizard while using that, so why did you insist on trying to break through something that doesn’t suit your aptitude?

Every time I thought about that, I got angry… .

In my sophomore year, I was disciplined for fighting with too many students, and my grades were dropping, so I had barely restrained myself until now.

‘But now they’re doing that until the first year, even the magicians… . I can’t stand it anymore!’

“I tried to live quietly for a while, but I can’t. There are already some first graders who are interested in that and want to learn!”

“What are you going to do, Davi senior?”

“I have to show you right now that free magic is trash that has no value in existence.”

“Then glass… .”

“no.”

If you try to punish a freshman with no experience, only rumors will circulate that I took my anger out.

Searching for the most famous among those free magic users… !

“Mina-senpai!? That senior is famous for being a unique magic user-”

“Do you believe that nonsense? Well, it’s because I’m in the first year.”

Rumors that Mina Spearmint is a unique magic user are no longer unknown in Agoge Dormitory, but there are still very few students who deny it.

It was only natural that Darby, who hated inferior students, ignored all the information he had heard about E-class Mina.

“I’m going to kill him. In order to expose all that nonsense.”

“Are you okay… ?”

“Hey, I’m the best at using magic in Agoge. When I was in 2nd grade, even though I didn’t give a fuck to the 1st graders, did I get an A class long ago and go to Paideia? Is there anyone who can beat me here?”

* * *

“ha… . Harin, what should I do?”

“What? Go to the place that gives you the most money. Mina, are you going to a really nice place now?”

“no. I’m thinking of rejecting all of them, but what should I do? It will take too long to write all the replies… .”

At numerous magic research societies, letters sent to take Mina, a unique magic user, piled up in front of Room 2-17 of the Agoge Dormitory.

In Room 2-17, where Harin and Mina were alone, Mina put all the letters in the corner without even opening them.

Whatever the conditions, she had no intention of leaving this school. No, even on the condition that she didn’t have to leave this school, she didn’t want to belong anywhere.

“First of all, I want to focus only on my school life.”

“OMG… . Do you like Professor Ian that much?”

“Because it’s not like that.”

“Yeah~ Even my ears are already red, but I’m sure it’s not~ Ah… . Hot, wet respect… !”

“No!”

Mina removed the soggy Harin and turned her gaze back to the letters.

‘What should I do with all of them, let’s get a consultation from Professor Ian… .’

The time Mina was thinking about.

Bang bang!

Someone knocked hard on the door.

“Hey, is Mina here? Hey, come out!”

‘… Is this voice, Darby-senpai?’

Having been hit badly in first grade, Mina remembered Darby clearly.

‘Because it’s quiet. From then on, you stopped paying attention to me… . I haven’t been involved with me since the first semester… ?’

“… Darby, what are you doing?”

“Hey, do you know how much the dorm atmosphere is ruined because of you? Didn’t I tell you to live quietly?”

Harin, who was quick-witted about this, tried to stop Dabi, but… . Darby was more angry than usual.

“You kept messing around and now this place has become a monastery. Everyone is meditating so as not to look ugly. Are you doing that on purpose, knowing that the first graders will be entering?”

“sorry… .”

‘End there. please.’

Harin silently begged Davi, but… .

“Everyone goes crazy over the crap of Ian or something like that—”

“Tell me again.”

“… What?”

“Who is the impostor! Have you ever met Professor Ian in person?”

Ahh… .

Harin closed her eyes and sighed.