Around the time Conrad and his party members were talking about this and that in front of the match for the evaluation match.

In the shade of a tree a short distance away, there was a figure watching the three people silently.

Green hair, pointy ears.

She was the only elf in the academy, Sian Rudflicka, who drew attention even when she was still.

“… … .”

Elves were a race with naturally developed sight and hearing.

Even if they didn’t come close to each other, the sight of the three of them talking could easily reach Xian’s eyes and ears from far away.

Their voices and expressions, as if they were having a pleasant conversation, also came in through her eyes.

At first, Xian also intended to meet and talk with a junior he was glad to see.

After watching Conrad’s conversation with the other juniors on both sides of him, he finally came up with his thoughts.

The juniors who had already spent a considerable amount of time together were sharing pleasant stories.

Because I had an intuition that if I intervened, it would create an uncomfortable position.

“… Shall we just go?”

So, she walked away without saying a word.

If he dared to intervene between the three of them now, only an awkward current could flow.

It was because he was not yet in a position to belong to his party, and rather, it could be said that he was an enemy of Conrad’s juniors until the evaluation.

If Conrad’s juniors won anyway, they would naturally become close friends at the same party, so there was no need to overdo it now.

If I won and ended up not joining his party, it was a relationship that didn’t have to be close from the start.

“I think I became a real fool after worrying about useless things like this.”

From the beginning, he was a person who lived without paying attention to others.

Even if she didn’t bend her own stance, the people around her adjusted it to suit her circumstances.

If there was someone who didn’t do that, I didn’t have to be friendly and just cut off the relationship.

However, for some reason, I often had an accident that I might make a mistake with a new junior I met a while ago.

Maybe it’s because I approached you pretending to be too friendly and it’s rather awkward.

Even thinking about the proposal to determine the winner in the evaluation match he did, he wondered if he had made a mistake.

Even if I entered the party without saying anything, as my junior suggested, there would always be a chance to compete.

If you beat him in the evaluation match, wouldn’t he ask you to come back to the party?

Or maybe the juniors are trying to distance themselves from them, thinking that she is a cumbersome woman who is difficult to get close to.

Or is it that he harbors a grudge against himself and deliberately ignores her, ruining the relationship?

Such complex thoughts had been running through her head lately.

For the first time, examining someone else’s mood was such a strange sensation to her.

On the way back to the dormitory with such complicated thoughts in my head.

A group of students appeared in front of Xian.

Looking at the way everyone was holding a sword, I could vaguely guess that they were all swordsmanship students.

“Cian Rudflicka from the archery club, right?”

The student who seemed to be the representative of the group of five approached Xian with an arrogant expression.

“What are you?”

From her point of view, she had no ties at all, so from the first meeting, she didn’t like the man in front of her who called her name arrogantly.

“You don’t know Luke Wrathion, the second son of the Marquis Wrathion?”

“I don’t know. I never heard of it.”

“As rumor has it, you are a woman who lives for my good taste.”

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Judging from Xian’s experience, there were two main types of men who approached her in this way.

One was the kind of person who flaunted her ridiculous skills or wealth against her looks.

In other cases, it was the kind of person who coveted her powers and wondered if he could use them somehow.

Of course, in both cases, it was the kind that didn’t feel very welcome to Xian.

“I don’t want to waste my time with an idiot. Don’t bother me and get out of the way.”

“Don’t do that, just listen to me. I’m sure it’s not a bad suggestion for you either.”

“I told you to stop bothering me and get out of the way. I don’t want to waste a second with your kind… .”

“Your midterm evaluation match this time, we will make it possible for you to win.”

“… … .”

Xi’an’s steps, which were trying to get away from the group blocking his way, stopped as soon as he heard the word midterm evaluation.

“What?”

“This match between you and that guy from the Ministry of Magic, you actually made it because you wanted to get revenge on him, right?”

“… It’s bullshit.”

Xian put on a puzzled expression at the nonsense, but Luke rather regarded it as a reaction to the point and continued.

“There’s nothing to be ashamed of. We’ve also suffered from his cowardly surprise attacks.

Xian, you were cowardly by those guys at the final hunting festival last semester.”

“… … .”

“Actually, you guys took away almost all of the monsters you caught and made them take them away, saying strange things like helping them, right?

With my insight, seeing through the truth behind the scenes is as easy as trying to figure out what the invisible slime ate for breakfast.”

“… under.”

Xian was already fed up with Luke’s nonsense over and over again, but her steps were a bit hesitant, unlike before.

A proposal to make them win the evaluation match and a delusion about the incident at the hunting festival.

Both of them were related to Conrad’s juniors, so I couldn’t take a step forward.

After listening to the words coming out of my mouth a little more, I thought of rejecting or ignoring them.

“As it was originally, you would be stronger than Conrad of the Ministry of Magic. He was a floor-crawler at the Ministry until last year. Even without the Ministry of Magic, the 2nd Circle, which is easily freed, has not been released all year long.

Exaggerated rumors have been circulating around him lately, but he must have done something behind the scenes like he did to you.”

“… … .”

“That’s why we’re going to give him a little touch up just in time for the day before the evaluation match. If you put a few cuts on your arm or thigh, wouldn’t it be better in a day even if you went to the temple?

All you have to do is easily deal with the guy who came to the evaluation match with the aftereffects remaining. It’s a simple reason, right?”

“… Pooh.”

She listened to all of Luke Wrathion’s proposals to help her win the evaluation match.

In the end, I couldn’t hold back the laughter that burst out and made me laugh.

“Isn’t it fun? You seem to think it’s funny too.”

“yes. It’s been a long time since I’ve laughed so loud.”

“Are you going to die? In front of all the students and professors of the academy, thinking of a guy who can’t do anything and crawls on the floor must make you laugh and go crazy, right?”

“yes. It’s a story that I can’t help laughing at.”

In front of Luke and his group laughing meanly, Xian uttered the true meaning of her laughter.

“I couldn’t stand it because your idea of thinking that if you fight in groups without knowing the topic, you will beat your juniors, it was so funny.”

The noisy atmosphere was instantly quieted thanks to her words.

No matter who heard it, it was a word that would disparage Luke and his group, so it wasn’t the mood to laugh anymore.

“What did you just say?”

“Your idea that you can win with just a lot of heads is so funny that I laughed without even knowing it.”

Luke’s expression immediately turned pale and contorted.

His words and actions were no different from arguing with people he didn’t know.

Of course, she did not even realize that she was insulting Luke and the others, and responded by saying that she was just stating an objective fact.

“Even if we all attack, we lose? Are you talking sanely?”

“yes. It probably takes less than a minute. He will be much stronger in one-on-one combat.”

“There’s no word that can’t be called a pierced snout.”

In the bloody atmosphere, someone was the first to take out a knife.

Soon, a total of five silver blades began to glow, one in each hand.

“I don’t think it’ll take a minute to shut that cheeky snout.”

“You’re doing something that shouldn’t be done.”

Xian was also not one to take it lightly in such a situation, so he immediately held the bow in his left hand and put his right hand behind his back.

‘… uh?’

However, she couldn’t feel any arrows, let alone arrows, on her back, where the quiver was supposed to hang.

‘… ah.’

At that moment, Xian immediately remembered why the quiver had disappeared.

The fact that after looking for an opportunity to talk to junior Konrad in front of the bulletin board for a long time, he briefly put down his quiver near the shade of a tree and came back.

“What are you going to do with that bow without an arrow? yes?”

After grasping the situation, Luke and the group of swordsmen also became more arrogant.

There was no blind spot to run away, and the crowd surrounding her was gradually closing the distance.

“You’ll regret it.”

“Why, do you want to retaliate?”

“… … .”

Unspoken was affirmative. Because Xian was not the type to be subjected to unreasonable violence.

However, her threat was a bit unconvincing enough to stop people living without thinking.

“Then you can just screw it up to the point where you can’t even think of retaliation!”

Luke’s sword moved.

The first target was the archer’s life, Xian’s right arm.

Xian tried to evade by moving her body, but sword blades were already flying towards her from four other directions.

The moment when the thought that perhaps injury could not be avoided crossed my mind.

“Senior Xian, get down!”

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Just before the slash was swung at Xian’s body, a familiar voice sounded in his ears.

“What are you talking about?”

“… … !”

While the other students paused at the appearance of the uninvited guest, Xian immediately lowered his stance without questioning his voice.

As soon as she pressed herself to the floor, she felt a cool breeze brush her upper back.

The wind was strong enough to sever the legs of a man without defensive equipment.

“aaa… !”

The most responsive student let out a scream full of pain.

After that, I let out a moan at the pain I felt in my knees and thighs one by one.

The half-cut off legs could no longer support their weight.

The bodies of the swordsmen students who lost their balance were slammed onto the floor one by one with a thump.

Only Xi’an was aware of the situation in the midst of this quarrel.

“This, this son of a bitch… again. !”

“What are you?”

“The other time, he interrupted and yelled unnecessarily, and the son of a bitch interrupted again… Kuhub!”

Conrad’s shoe landed on Luke’s swearing face. Then, observing Luke’s face closely, he recalled where he had met him on the other side of his buried memory.

“I remembered. You must be one of the guys who quarreled with Stella the other day.”

“Ku-huh, big, thu-huh!”

“I don’t know what you believe in and keep messing around like that. If you were going to touch my acquaintance, you should have been prepared for this.”

Conrad picks up one of the knives lying on the floor,

He drove the blade straight into Luke’s forearm, which was lying defenselessly on the floor.

“Quaaagh!!”

At the sensation of the cool blade penetrating his arm, Luke let out another scream as if the world was about to pass away.

“Just try getting caught again.”

“Keuk, kuk, aaa… !”

“At that time, I’m going to kill you enough to make you want to drop out.”

“Turn off… … .”

Leaving Luke and the rest of the group who eventually fainted from the pain, Konrad grabbed Cian’s hand and lifted him up from the floor.

“Let’s get out of here, senior Xian.”

“… yes.”

Leaving behind the sound of a church carriage coming from somewhere, Xian and Conrad disappeared behind the alley.