Episode 5. Lecture 1 (1)

agoge dormitory.

At Kiruna Magic Academy, where Mina Spearmint lives, there are three main types of students living here.

First, the anti-aristocrats.

Right now, the number is very small, but as the students who are raising the most notoriety recently.

They were the ones who called for equality with Kiruna’s ideology that ‘under the cradle of teaching, anyone is only a disciple or a teacher’.

A half-exaggerated rumor was circulating that the students of Agoge, who were influenced by that ideology, were rapidly becoming anti-aristocrats, and that the school unofficially considered these students to be subject to first-class designated management.

Anti-aristocrats are usually inferior students and commoners who have been discriminated against, but there are students who insist on poor facilities in the Agoge dormitory, even though they can enter the Paideia dormitory free of charge because of their excellent grades. did.

These were usually fierce anti-aristocrats. Of course, there may be honor students who stay in Agoge because they don’t want to live with nobles who will look down on them… .

Second are the poor.

Agoge Dormitory is free of charge. Although it is a place where you have to live in a group of six people in a room and strict rules that even control meal times restrict freedom, users do not charge anything.

So, it can be seen that poor commoner students almost unconditionally go through the agoge life.

Finally, inferior students.

The application fee for the Paideia Dormitory is divided according to grades.

The higher the grade, the higher the application fee for the Paideia dormitory, so nobles with ambiguous money could have to stay in the Agoge dormitory if they did not achieve a certain level of grades. It is because the Paideia dormitory fee is beyond imagination to go without any subsidies.

The remaining aristocratic inferiors, that is, the lower aristocrats belonging to the Agoge dormitory, give up their desire to go far up to Paideia, where they cannot exert their spirit, and remain and rule the Agoge.

Agoge Dormitory is a battleground between anti-aristocrats and lower nobles.

A group of people who are dark and dark enough to be called the dormitory of the world’s best magic education institution, but in a way, a dynamic group of losers.

There was a high possibility that a lot of hurt and angular people gathered in a place where a lot of the socially underprivileged gathered like this.

‘The weak are not necessarily the good.’

Mina, who had lived a long life at the bottom, was well aware that if you look closely, they often look closer to evil.

So, Mina was very grateful to her roommates. Fortunately, they were all good-natured friends.

Although they are a little tired… .

“mina-! Where have you been? We all waited for you and skipped lunch until now.”

“Where did you go without saying anything? uh!? Are you a man?”

“What, when I asked to go out with you at night, it was full. Are you a real man?”

“Also. Real beauties never go out looking for a man. Thinking of competing with neatness on this floor… . Actually, wasn’t he the best player among us?”

“for a moment. Show me a picture. Aren’t you a weird kid? You must have met a man before, so that he will have eyes for people.”

“If I show you a picture, will you know who it is?”

“Of course! There is no one I have not touched on this floor.”

A roar of laughter erupted.

Until now, Mina hadn’t said a word, but the atmosphere suddenly brightened.

Like that, Mina stood there hesitantly for a long time, thinking about when to say it wasn’t like that and lower the tension.

All of them were beautifully decorated in their own way. Judging by the hairstyle, the 1st and 2nd period must have been cut out as a matter of course, and only the hair was styled.

Room 2-17, where Mina lives, has always had this kind of atmosphere.

Some kind of joke of fate, except for Mina, all the other five were like that… . Their appearance and personality were as bright as flowers, but they were also children with a flower garden in their heads.

Naturally, all six of them, including Mina, are E class.

Even though Mina, who is always holding on to books, and them, who only hang out, have the same grades, those five never laughed at her, but rather took care of her and cheered her on.

“Oh right! Mina! Let’s go see men with me!”

Everything was good except for the occasional flirting with me to watch men.

“… sorry. I don’t like meeting people like that.”

“ah. This is not it. Let’s have lunch and go to class with me!”

“yes?”

“Mana and Mado language. Aren’t you listening?”

“uh. Why? Even if I asked you to go with me until now, didn’t you fall in?”

“Hey. sorry about that.”

“no. But why all of a sudden?”

“This time, Professor Goo Na-in suddenly went on a business trip in a hurry. So, in the meantime, another new professor came in for the class… . What was your name? Was it Ian?”

“ah… .”

“I heard rumors that I was very young for a professor. Mina, aren’t you going to that class anyway?”

“Uh, uh… . right.”

“Come with me! I want to go watch.”

To be honest, I was just trying to get some rest today.

Because I think I can get out of here after one semester.

I was happy at first. I was so happy that I hopped through the corridors of Ereb and Mage Tower where no one was there.

However, the Agoge dormitory seen on the way back stimulated memories with roommates. At the same time, he vividly recalled the past year when he gnashed his teeth to learn magic from there.

Even while crying, even while being cursed at, looking at the stars floating in the window and looking at the magic book… at that time.

Back then, magic was her everything.

It was like that even when I was young.

It was the same when I stayed up all night vomiting gastric juices to enter the school.

How are you now?

… I do not know.

I suddenly felt depressed, so I tried to seriously think about the future.

The interest in Professor Lee Ahn’s class was stronger than the depression.

“Okay, let’s go together. I can go to the auditorium right after lunch.”

“I heard that the new professor was a soldier… . Will you feel better then?”

“I guess… ?”

“If you’re handsome, I’ll keep listening to you!”

* * *

She stretched her chest proudly and walked across the stage as if all of this was really trivial.

Of course, he is an ordinary English teacher with no horns, but now he has to lay the iron plate firmly.

The auditorium made its name worth it so that the number of 80 or so students gathered here seemed small, and the students sat quietly in their seats.

Class hasn’t even started yet, so why is it so quiet? These are the kids of your age who are still chattering after 5 minutes from the start of class?

However, it doesn’t show that it cares.

Calmly, pretending not to know, yes… . Breaking through the dense silence that seemed to be textured, they crossed the stage and eventually stood in front of the podium.

What I faced was short, spark-like eyes, but full of intense interest. Now, I realized that I am a new face to these students.

‘It was like this when I first met the class 2 kids.’

If you make a mistake here, you may really be buried. I unknowingly swallowed my saliva.

Also, looking at it now, everyone was wearing a robe, but I was the only one wearing a suit.

There was also a student who alternated between what I was wearing a soldier’s uniform and his fluttering sleeves. Apparently, this outfit was not common here.

‘I’ll have to get a robe later. … Well? There are also Mint students.’

She was sitting next to a girl who didn’t seem to listen and was talking about something.

I glanced at Mint’s eye-catching mint-colored hair and blue bow hairpin for a moment, then realized that the clock was pointing to the hour.

I have to start class now…

‘Oh right. book.’

Come to think of it, you have to have a book or class material to give a lecture or not, right?

I guess I was really nervous. I couldn’t think of it.

Even though the maid said that this is something that the maid should be aware of… . I crawled out of the office too proudly.

As I walked so confidently, Rien seemed to think I would take care of it.

what to do with this You can’t keep your mouth shut.

Yes, let’s start by saying hello!

“Ian Laver. For the next three days, I will be conducting supplementary classes on ‘Mana and Magic Language’ instead of Professor Guo Nine.”

I didn’t avoid the students’ eager eyes and confronted them. Because I don’t have books, I have no choice but to look at the students.

He looked around at them with a look of contempt. Since I didn’t tell them where to open it, everyone was covering their books.

without books… . Mana and Mado language… . first meet… . Basic theory… .

“Today, first of all, I will listen to your perception of mana.”

I was so nervous that I said something with my head spinning.

However, it is not a big party to say anything, it is essential to understand the general level of the students while conducting basic classes.

If the educator does not know the level of the trainees, it is impossible to know where to start teaching.

I didn’t bother to call attendance, but instead, I scanned the faces of the students gathered in the auditorium once again.

There was not a single character that I would recognize at a glance.

It was probably because it was a class for people with low grades.

Everyone here was like a shadow or a folding screen whose names were not even mentioned in this novel. Children like the background who don’t even draw their eyes, nose and mouth properly if they’re drawn as a cartoon.

One of them I know the name of.

“Mina Spearmint.”

At first, I was going to look at the attendance book and have someone announce, but then I pointed her out right away because I was afraid that if I picked an absent person, it would break the flow.

The Mint student jumped up from his seat as if he was startled by the sudden call.

“Yeah… . Yep!”

“What is mana to you?”

“M-Mana is… .”

Then, suddenly, my left hand started to itch.

“for a moment.”

“Ah, yes.”

I let out a sigh in one ear and looked at the back of my hand, and there were small white letters written on it.

‘It’s a crisis!’

“… Elma?”

As I whispered as quietly as possible, the writing on the back of my hand was erased, and it started to itch again.

‘Right! Let me help you!’

“how?”

‘In one of the few ways I help people in this world. You know?’

“Would that help… ? No, do something for now… !”

Alias and destiny.

A blessing that Elma directly bestows upon the mortals he pays attention to.

Tinnitus remains in the form of a name, and fate remains in the form of a sentence, giving the target strength appropriate to its content and enabling the target to overcome its limits.

It may seem childish, but the presence of a person named Lee or Fate here is evaluated with great value.

It can prove that you are a person who has received the expectations of the goddess, and the spec that instantly rises when your tinnitus exerts its power is a variable that cannot be ignored.

‘First of all, because a teacher is a teacher-‘

Painless scars began to form on my left wrist. At first, they looked like threadlike veins, but they gradually began to take a definite form, and in the end… .

‘True teacher.’

“are you kidding?”

No, what the heck is a true teacher?

‘what. Don’t like this name? weird. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone swear at my naming sense… .’

“Is there any crazy person who would swear at the goddess during the ceremony? Oh, okay. So what is it? What ability is this?”

‘I’m sorry, teacher, but I think we should start class soon!’

Elma’s point was sharp. As the silence lengthened, the students began to lose their concentration.

We must not forget that the lecture I am going to lead now is a supplementary class for those with low grades.

My experience was speaking.

At Pyeongeun High School, English reading comprehension was divided into classes by level, and I was in charge of the lower-ranked children.

Children with lower scores were basically not motivated to study, and some children already said, ‘It’s too late.’, ‘I’ll just graduate from high school and get a job right away.’ I had the same idea.

In fact, that’s enough for a nobleman, and most of the students were just chasing fun and interesting things without a sense of reality.

So, in order to leave even three English words in the minds of these students, I had to come up with an interesting class more than anything else.

Since I was in elementary school, I have chosen words and sentences that even children who have stopped studying can understand, and focused attention on them by using light media such as famous foreign movies or pop songs.

To babies who don’t like to eat, ‘It’s an airplane. Ah, I have to -‘ as if he was somehow trying to scoop up a few spoonfuls of food while calming and comforting.

I know I gave up on my studies, but I think I led the class with the mindset of learning this one thing.

Based on that attention, I had to continue the tension until the end of the class so that I could achieve the goal of the class even a little bit.

What if it fails? The classroom becomes hell.

It was difficult with 30 people, but now I had to control 80 people.

It was already obvious that it would not be easy, but it would ruin my first impression of both students and faculty if I messed up from the first class.

So, this class. somehow succeed… !

“Even if you give me time to think, you pass it off as small talk. Does everyone have that much confidence?”

As I looked around the auditorium with the expression that you were taking classes during winter vacation, when everyone else was taking a break, the students who met my eyes lowered their heads, fearing that their names would be called.

It was a really classic technique, but in an instant the auditorium fell silent.

Originally, I don’t like classes with such a low atmosphere, but I couldn’t help it even if it didn’t suit my personality.

“Mina Spearmint.”

I’m a cool aristocratic professor now.

“I will ask again.”

The poor Mint student was almost in tears. I’m sorry… .

A psycho teacher always sets an example.

“What is mana to you?”