Episode 60. midterm exam (2)

The last day of the paper-and-pencil assessment.

The other students finished all the written exams and went to prepare for the magic duel evaluation that was to be held a week later. There weren’t too many students left in the library.

“princess… . It’s okay if you don’t do this to me. It’s a competitor taking the same class… !”

“Ina, Professor Ian’s class is absolute evaluation.”

“What is it?”

“… I had times like that too. I understand.”

Even in the floating atmosphere, Frill and Ina sat face to face in the library, guessing each other’s answers and making study plans.

“Oh, I made a mistake here… .”

“Wow, Princess. Isn’t that almost perfect?!”

“One is wrong.”

“I’m… . Well… . Wow, Princess. Is it about to get dark outside already?”

“I know. Shall we go in soon?”

Frill’s grades, which were at the bottom, rose sharply to the upper middle of the undergraduate school in half a semester.

In the early evening, when the moon was already beginning to rise faintly, Frill and Ina’s bags, which returned to the dormitory with candies of the same taste in their mouths, were already full of books needed to prepare for the final exam.

“I could have done better… .”

“Ah~ I heard you got all but one question right. You also performed very well on other tests. Isn’t that how you get to be the top of your department?”

“… How would you feel if you were the head of your department?”

“Well… . I didn’t feel anything special. Perhaps, it could be because I won without putting any effort into it.”

“You didn’t make any effort?”

“I was just playing around, and after roughly calling out a lot of guardian spirits in the test, I got first place. Come to think of it, this is my first time learning something new at this school.”

“… don’t you regret You could have gone to school comfortably.”

“Now I feel like going to school properly, huh?”

When the two of them reached the crossroads between Agoge and Paideia, chattering like that.

Under the translucent moon, the guardian knight who silently guarded them drew his sword.

“Your senses are alive.”

Where Virgo’s gaze was directed, the Blue Wolf, hiding in a bush far away, revealed itself, retracting the sword he had pulled out.

“… Unlike that guy.”

“three!? Long time no see!”

Sein Saeparang looked up at the hazy rising moon and strengthened his will to hunt.

* * *

Leaving behind the Guardian Knight’s worries, Ina said goodbye to him and Frill and ran to Sein.

“three-! How much is it? Half a year?!”

“It’s noisy, Ina. It is a duel.”

“suddenly?”

Seeing Ina innocently staring at the tip of the sword approaching right in front of his nose, Saein seemed to feel annoyance welling up to the top of his head.

“Suddenly! I must have challenged you.”

“when?”

would you kill me?

The moment Sein was seriously contemplating the fate of Inawa.

ugh… .

“… ?”

“wow!”

“Hey, what are you doing?”

The red baby, the spirit of the world, was in Ina’s arms before she knew it.

“Oh my, he has grown so much!”

“This child… . Hey, what if it gets attached to your enemy!”

“Baby is so pretty. how many years does he have? Is it 150 years?”

“… It’s been a while. It was evil.”

“Poor… . As soon as I was born.”

Se-in regained his senses only after he returned the baby that had become quiet in Ina’s arms.

“… Ina, now it has been completely tamed by humans. A wolf reading a book in a warm place is pathetic.”

“He! do you know how hard it is to study Sain, can you read the same book over and over for three hours?”

“Those are humans-”

“Can’t you?”

“… So why did you move to the Ministry of Magic?! I was ranked first in the command department even if I didn’t do anything, so why are you going through such hardships!!”

Ina laughed like an idiot while lightly avoiding Sein’s sudden sword attack to cut off that rattling tail.

“But there is. Actually, I’m not number one.”

“What?”

“I haven’t even opened the book, but it’s actually ridiculous to say that it won first place. Why did I only know that now?”

“It must have been because your talent was so overwhelming.”

“Then, who studied hard? What do they do because they are unfair?”

“Would you recognize my hard work outside? In the original world, only skills are everything. And originally, evaluation is not about looking at the process, it is about proving it through the results.”

“But Professor Ian said that school isn’t like that. It shouldn’t be in a place like that.”

From a certain moment, Ina stopped looking at Sein.

“As much as a school for learning, he said it should be a happy place. So when the students graduate, they won’t take this unfortunate world for granted… .”

Sain instinctively distanced himself from Inna and took a defensive stance.

Leaving her back in the twilight, Ina was seeing the world for the first time.

Ina revealed her teeth with an obvious murderous intent, as if she would tear her opponent to pieces at any moment.

“By the way, there is. three?”

“why… ! What!”

“Why were you with him?”

Behind Sein, whose tail was lowered, Haril, who had been hiding behind her, approached Ina with a giggle.

“dissembler.”

“… .”

“Sain, did I tell you? Ina has not developed at all. It’s like, even though you were a member of the student council, now you pretend to understand everything.”

Burning the grass black under her oversized hat, Haril leisurely taunted Ina.

‘Why can’t this person grasp the situation?’

From Sein’s point of view, it was no different than begging for death.

* * *

“You don’t know how many nights I’ve had to be told I’m a flame control prodigy. Are you really able to understand other kids by pretending to work hard now?”

“Harryl, aren’t you in a position to whine for taking the lead in harassing them instead of trying to understand them?”

“under… . What do non-humans know? Didn’t the entire Stella family lose their heads just because the emperor was blinded? The princess says so, but what are you saying to me?”

Haril began urging Sein, who had hardened in front of Ina.

“Sain, you continued to grow and Ina stopped growing. No, maybe worse than before? I don’t even know the subject, and since I’m in the third year and belatedly trying to learn other magic, my body must have all rusted out.”

“Hey you… .”

“What are you so afraid of? You say you want to defeat Ina like that, so why don’t you run right into it?”

“Wait a minute, please shut up… !”

Sain covered Haril’s mouth. Didn’t grow at all? Are humans that stupid?

Haril didn’t even know Sein’s feelings and shook her off and shouted ferociously at Inna.

“Even if I call out the guardian spirits and fight, you’re an E-class failure as a wizard! Are you going to use your magic? what? what’s school like? Because you’re talking nonsense like that. You’re being treated like a dog by humans!!”

“There is no need to fight now… . See you in a week.”

“What?”

“Asane.”

Wood deuk… . bang!

As Ina beckoned, the tree standing next to it exploded as if it had been clawed at by something huge.

‘The Rang people really use magic?’

Haril muttered in disbelief.

“How about magic-”

“Jeddah.”

bang-!!

Seeing the lightning falling right next to the stunned Heryl, Sein remembered Ark, his hometown.

It had to be. This blue lightning, the wrath of a living god… .

Because it was the fang of Flonet, the god of wolves.

“Heril, I hope to meet you at the magic duel evaluation.”

“eww… . ugh… .”

“Don’t talk nonsense to Sein, go back right now.”

With a cool voice, Ina groaned.

“Before I kill you.”

And that moment. The pink-eyed demon was watching with an expressionless expression.

* * *

It wasn’t a day when there was an E class class. So today, the Magical Linguistics Department E Class classroom should be empty.

“Gyaaagh!”

From there, out of nowhere, Yuri’s scream erupted.

“you… . Is it Yuri?”

“Gyaaa!!”

Above Yuri’s head, the torn answer sheet flew into the sky.

Seeing the pieces of paper piled up on top of her head, Jun and Karin trembled.

“Huh… .”

“Why, all of a sudden… ?”

“It was three times… . Originally, it was taken 3 times, but I changed it to 5 times 1 minute ago!”

“oh… .”

There are many spaces in the school where students can spend extra time between classes, such as classrooms and lounges, but… . Such a place is always full of people.

Yuri, Karin, and even Jun. All outsiders, they had to wander around in search of a deserted place.

It wasn’t bad for the three of us to explore places we haven’t been to yet, such as the basement or rooftop of a school, or to be like plants idly basking in the sun while sitting on a bench.

Thanks to the consideration of Professor Ian who listened to Karin’s circumstances, they were able to spend time here on days when the class in charge of E class was not being held.

E-class classrooms in any department were famous for being very poorly maintained, but this place, managed by Professor Ang Lee, was almost as shiny as a new classroom.

‘Unlike the Department of Magic, does this place pay so much attention to Class E?’

Yuri muttered while resting her cheek on the polished desk.

“There are only three days left for the evaluation of the magic duel. Jun, are you confident?”

“No, I’m already scared…” .”

“why? If you go and meet the people who bullied you, release everything that has accumulated so far.”

Hearing Yuri’s words, Karin also jabbed into the air several times with her eyes shining at Jun.

As a theological student, she was excluded from the magic duel evaluation… .

“I want Karin to go out instead of me… .”

“no way. you can do it too Don’t worry too much.”

“… Yuri Are you not nervous? Did you even hear about it?”

“it?”

I don’t know where the story came from, but rumors that Yuri would face Eugene in the duel evaluation were all over the school.

Students who take the dueling assessment are basically pitted against the same class, but the winner is given the chance to compete against an opponent of a higher rank.

So, theoretically, it wouldn’t be impossible for E class to deal with A class.

“But didn’t you say that the opponents you fight are chosen randomly?”

“glass… . You joined the student council. What could Princess Auril not do?”

“… aaah, really!”

Yu-jin, who was being bullied in the department recently, was rather stressing Yuri.

The day when Yu-jin’s friends, who acted as if they would be with her forever, abandoned her as if they had never done so after Yu-jin was defeated by Yuri.

‘Is he the chief? lie. Something must have gone wrong.’

‘By the way, did you keep bullying them? Poor.’

They openly chewed on Yujin, but suddenly came to Jun and acted as if they didn’t participate in the bullying and cared for the bullied classmate.

Maybe they found out they were wrong? I even thought for a moment that maybe it was because I was clumsy that I couldn’t honestly say my faults.

As expected, they didn’t act that way because they sincerely felt guilty towards Jun.

When they were next to Yujin, they were secretly sympathetic to Jun’s bullying, but they secretly withdrew their footing, saying that they were different from her.

“But Eugene seems to think that if I win, I can become friends with the kids again.”

As the bullying continues, do you think you can get out of this situation only by breaking the glass? . She tried to compete with Yuri even in the smallest things.

‘When making friends, that’s not what’s important.’

To Eugene, who raises his hand more than himself during class and tries to get even one more compliment from the professor. Yuri no longer felt inferior. but… .

“I don’t even want to fight anymore, but the other kids keep making a fuss.”

“That was kind of… .”

“I heard that when Eugene isn’t there, he laughs when he says that his father doesn’t exist… .”

Karin’s eyes widened as she had never heard such a harsh noise in her life.

A person can say such bad things to a person.

Karin shuddered, afraid of what they would say if they learned of Yuri’s origins.

“Honestly, it’s an opponent I’ve beaten once, and I’m not afraid to fight… . Ha, I don’t know what’s right.”

“Yuri, you’re not bad… ! But, Eugene… . What should he do… .”

What broke the awkward silence was the voice of a tired man.

“Oh, you really are here… .”

“… Senior Carol?”

“hi. Jun, I tried to flesh out your hypothesis… .”

Carol, who seemed to have been up all night for several days, sneaked up to her and handed a black piece of paper to Yuri and Karin as well as Jun.

“Guys, can you review this magic formula just once?”