How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 194

I knew it would be like this (2)

– Boom!!

The scarecrow that had been prepared in the field practice class was burned by the explosion and fell out.

In effect, it is a target prepared to be used alternately among students. Seeing it shattered with a single shot of magic, the students gathered in the practice field widened their eyes.

Even just looking at the remains visible through the rising smoke, the power was beyond the level of fairly basic elemental magic.

‘One point explosion’

It is a type of magic that has relatively low firepower for a middle class magic. It was actual combat magic that gave up firepower and emphasized speed.

Nevertheless, due to the aftermath of the rather large explosion, smoke spread around the practice area.

After a while, the sight of the scene returned, revealing Ed Roth Taylor, the magic caster, standing there with his magical hand shaken off.

It must have consumed quite a bit of mana, but it didn’t look difficult or unreasonable at all. Without shedding a single drop of sweat, he unleashed a medium-level magic of this power with the feeling of just waving his hand once.

“Enough. Leave it at that point.”

A hands-on class in elemental battle magic.

All of the 3rd graders, who had entered the first proper lieutenant magic practice class since school started, were already very nervous and gathered.

Students gathered to learn the first lieutenant magic properly. In the meantime, the existence of Ed Roth Taylor, who had already mastered several lieutenant magic perfectly, was a mass of incongruity.

Professor Kalade, who had been watching the training session with tired eyes after coming out to the practical training room, slightly turned his eyes to see the regular students.

The scarecrows, who look strong even at a glance, are wide-eyed at the sight of them falling out.

Even Ed Roth Taylor, who used magic, doesn’t even look like he’s having a hard time.

It was famous for the fact that he had already reached a high level in spiritism, but he didn’t think he would know how to use elemental magic so neatly.

Seeing Ed shaking off his clothes in the smoke, the students seemed to have lost their will.

“Ed Roth Taylor. You just go to Class A starting tomorrow.”

“I haven’t even gotten a half-movement evaluation yet.”

“You don’t have to wait until then. I’ll report it to the Trix building, so get ready to move.”

I don’t think it will have a very good influence on the students who attended the class with the expectation of finally practicing middle-class magic. Professor Carl Reid was annoyed, but she felt the need to act quickly.

In the first place, there was no reason for a student who had already taken the top of the 3rd grade to conduct classes in such a low class because the class transfer evaluation had not yet been taken.

“Looks like you’re already proficient in magic for lieutenants. Go to class A and just take the high-level magic course. There’s also a class I’m in charge of, so let’s see it again there.”

“All right.”

For a while, whispers went back and forth between the students.

Being told to take the Advanced Magic Course is one of the highest honors a student of the Ministry of Magic can hear.

If you can properly use even one high level magic before graduation, you will be evaluated as one of the best talents of that generation.

Even if you look at all the grades of the Sylvania Ministry of Magic right now, the number of students who can use high-level elemental magic is in the palm of your hand.

However, the number has increased with the development of the education system. There was a longer period when students couldn’t even imagine that high-ranking magic wielders could emerge.

“Go back today. You have nothing to learn from this class.”

Kaleid yawned as if he was annoyed and waved his hand at Ed. She meant to go as she had nothing more to teach.

It is full of students who are just taking their first steps in lieutenant magic. He is the kind of student who has nothing good to put between them.

Ed Rosteeler looked at Professor Kalade in dismay, then nodded several times before moving toward the exit from the lab.

All the students were swallowing dry saliva as they watched Ed calmly leave the practice room.

* From the first day of the practice class, time flew by.

I was ordered to leave the practice field out of the blue, and I came out toward the student plaza.

After taking the elementology practice class, after eating, I went to the monster ecology class, stopped by the library to borrow design books, and asked the maids in the Ophelis Hall for some training to raise my repair level.

After that, I went back to the camp and did some work on trimming logs, checking hunting traps, trimming meat, repairing the cabin, and even going to bed was in my head.

It is not very pleasant to have gaps in a well-organized daily routine.

It’s the time when the hot summer is over and the cool autumn wind blows little by little.

Sitting in the student plaza and idly basking in the midday sun… I see students busily moving.

I’ve never been gazing at the scenery of the bachelor’s school because I’ve always been busy living, but there was definitely a scene that could be called a sacred place for academics and a place where youth blossomed.

The sight of the students wearing school uniforms and chatting hahahoho while playing around in the school building is indeed quite a romantic place.

There are many things I didn’t realize because I was struggling to survive on my own. What you can see only after relaxing a little is that this Sylvania is a place where even the sons of nobles stomp their feet because they want to enter the school.

Did you struggle to live without too much waste?

There are definitely times when such thoughts suddenly arise. I can’t help it. Living like this has become ingrained in me.

“hmm…”

As I was sitting quietly on a bench basking in the sunlight, I suddenly remembered something to do during my free time.

I can’t leave the school building until the next class starts anyway, so it’s better to go to the Obel building attached to the student plaza.

In the Obel building, which is the home of the current student council, there must be Tanya, who returned from school the day before yesterday.

As there are many procedures left to go through after returning home, I thought that Tanya would be quite busy as well. Since he returned home in a hurry, there must be a lot of work to be done.

So I came up with the idea of ​​visiting on weekends when there are no student council or school schedules. Because on weekdays I am just as busy.

However, I think it wouldn’t be too bad to visit once when the time is running out.

“…”

He remembered the last glimpse of Tanya he had seen before leaving the Roth Taylor mansion.

Standing in front of the ruins of a collapsed mansion, holding on tightly to the flag bearing the family seal.

As the next head of the family in charge of the Roth Taylor mansion, he was determined and looked straight ahead, completely putting aside his immature attitude. The last look of her like that kept being stepped on in my heart.

Not only that, but this time, as the representative of the Roth Taylor remaining forces, he is also negotiating with the imperial family, and according to Tracyana, it seems that he is rallying his own forces…

Compared to the first time I saw him, he has become a lot more mature, and his appearance as a leader leading a group should stand out quite a bit.

First of all, let’s exchange information about what has happened, and if there is something to encourage, let’s encourage it.

Well, it looks like you’ve grown a lot internally… I don’t think you need that kind of thing.

Obviously, you will be doing well on your own. Because everyone grows in front of trials.

*

“I want to hit them all… uhh… uhh… uhhh…”

Putting all such expectations to shame, Tanya, who was sitting in the student council president’s office, hadn’t changed at all.

“It was definitely my dream to become the student council president and spread the glory of the Roth Taylor family, but the family collapsed. It’s full of people whispering about Danny’s family affairs, but there’s still a lot to do with the student council president position. I don’t want to live like this. I want to forget everything and leave…”

“…”

“A house… should I build a house… beat up the scholastics… gather up the remaining legacy… and buy a windy meadow somewhere in Cohelton, or on the side of the Rameln Mountains… In addition, I built a pretty decent house to live in alone… A life where I wasted my time making some embroidery in my room, or drawing pictures… not so… not bad…”

No, to put it bluntly, it was the exact opposite.

Tanya Rosteiler, who wanted to become more authoritative than anyone else by gaining secular power, became more pessimistic and less greedy than anyone else in just one year.

If you think about Tanya’s life, I think it will be like me too.

Tears try to cover my eyes

“Sometimes I read a book… I go to a teahouse in a nearby rural village and pretend to be a regular… Hearing the news of the city from time to time, I smile and laugh, just like that… A suspicious person who appears occasionally in the town. If I live while pretending to be a rich woman… This is not a bad life… Ah… I want to go back to farming… I want to farm… Forget about power, lineage, and taste the futility of time. I want to drink tea while feeling it…”

“Tanya… you’ve been ruined a lot..”

“It doesn’t look like it’s going to break…? Ugh… Ugh…”

Burying her head in front of the pompous student council president’s desk, Tanya let out a whining sound.

“Today, I have to review the complaint handling report and review 97 documents. And since I’m back at school, I have to go to the Trix building and have a chat with Principal Obel, and write a letter of thanks for the support from the Pelbron noble family… Maintenance of the student hall I have to inspect the construction to make sure it’s finished, but he wants me to go to class anyway…”

“…go for it.”

“In addition, I have to check the affairs of the Roth Taylor family. Princess Selaha puts in strange checks whenever she meets, so the vassals are having a hard time.

There are over a hundred letters sent to me in a day, and even if I read all of them, it seems that my eyes are getting tired and my vision is blurry. It’s not that people applaud you for working so hard, they only glance at you for belonging to the Roth Taylor family… Help me, older brother.

“

“….go for it!!!!!!!!!”

In fact, it was Tanya herself who claimed to be the next head of household, and it was Tanya herself who went to the student council election and was elected.

The judgment itself is all a matter for Tanya to do, and I have no authority over it.

“In the first place, the last time I saw you in the Roth Taylor family, it seems that you were much more dignified.”

“At that time… the atmosphere was like that. It was a situation where I felt like I had to be brave, and I had to act like I had realized many things and show myself as the next leader to lead the family…”

“Yes, it was.”

“At that time, I also felt like my heart was overflowing inside.

Tanya sighed and lifted her head, which she had buried in the desk. Then, making eye contact with me, he saw me wearing bandages all over the place and said,

“There are some scars left, but you’ve improved a lot, brother.

“Thanks to you, I took a little break in Sylvania. There were some incidents while you were finishing your work and returning to school, but it was all over.”

“That’s fortunate. Brother is planning to go to Sylvania until graduation, right?”

“Well, that’s right.”

I also have to deal with the valve block. If I’m going to go to school, I really want to get a diploma.

A diploma from this school was what I always aimed for when I was thrown into this world. Now it feels like it has even been given a fairly symbolic meaning.

“Can I realistically take care of family affairs while also taking care of school work… I have such doubts.”

“Then… are you thinking of quitting?”

“I don’t know. To be honest, I still have a lot of sense of belonging to the bachelor’s degree. While attending this semester, I’m going to think about it after finishing my overdue work.”

No matter what I do, one sense of responsibility has definitely grown.

If you’re really having a hard time, you’re in a situation where no one in the world will blame you even if you throw away everything and run away without knowing it.

Nevertheless, Tanya returned to the bachelor’s office to finish all the tasks ahead of her.

The person himself makes a lot of noise, but it was proof that he was somehow enduring it.

“Still, it feels good to visit my brother directly. In recent months, I’ve only met places with serious noises or with people who need weight… It’s the first time I’ve lamented like this. Now that I’ve shaken everything off, I feel relieved. …”

“Yeah, I had a lot of trouble…”

“Anyway, the family affairs are going well. We’ve recruited Magnus Corps Commander from the Calamore family, Cinir Bloomriver from the Bloomriver family, and Erkel Elferlan from the Elferlan family.”

All of them were celebrities whose names were known everywhere in the empire. No matter how much Ross Taylor’s name was, they weren’t easy to get involved with.

“How did you capture such big people?”

“Because he showed his hostility toward Princess Selaha without hesitation.”

Tanya lifted her upper body completely and buried herself on the soft sofa for the student council president. She seemed bewildered, her tiredness evident, but she continued her talk nonetheless.

“I thought it would be best to solidify my position as the opposing faction and unite like-minded people if it was an opponent who couldn’t be an ally anyway.”

“It was a political decision after all.”

“It’s just that I didn’t like that Princess Selaha too much. She keeps saying things she doesn’t like.”

Was it a more primitive problem?

“And, well, I didn’t like it very much to act as if I had the blood of the imperial family. All bloodlines. Do you know what a bloodline is? It’s just that you’re born with the same bloodline…”

I never thought the day would come when these words would come out of that Tanya Rosteiler’s mouth.

The appearance of Tanya that I had seen in <The Fallen Swordsman of Sylvania> was already very different. Sitting in front of her is a blonde girl who has completely become pessimistic and laughs, saying that her bloodline is just blood.

Is this the villainous young lady who risked her life for the glory of the Ross Taylor family and always smiled arrogantly? Her breasts become petty…

“For the time being, I thought it would be better to move towards enlisting the allies. Well, I can handle the family problems as long as I can. If I get into trouble or need help, I’ll tell my older brother.”

“Yes, say it without hesitation. We are a family born of the same blood as we are.”

Right now, it’s important to support Tanya, who suffers from chronic fatigue.

I looked at Tanya and talked without hesitation.

“I know you’re always working hard, and I’m sure the day will come when you’ll be rewarded for it. So don’t be too heartbroken, and if you have any difficulties, tell me anytime. I’m willing to help wherever I can.”

“…”

It can be said that it is textbook, but anyway, I gave encouragement that was in the middle of the day. However, Tanya’s reaction was more dramatic than I expected.

He opened his eyes wide and looked at me as if in surprise.

“What’s with that expression that looks like you’re looking at a strange sight…”

“No… I’m grateful for my brother’s encouragement. It’s just… I thought that there weren’t many people around me who gave me such natural encouragement.”

“It means you’ve been doing well.”

“It would be easier for me to interpret it that way. Well… Thank you, older brother. I’ll try my best.”

Tanya smiled softly before long, then straightened her back and clenched her fists tightly. It’s like fighting on my own.

It seems that even before I entered the president’s office guided by the student members, I was under heavy workload. The desk is full of papers.

It’s nothing special, it’s been a while since I’ve met my blood and relatives and talked about personal affairs. That alone made me feel a lot of relief.

That’s what family is like. Even if you don’t share a great experience or talk a lot… They are the kind of people who feel relieved just by meeting them after a long time in a foreign country.

“Your brother will be on Aken Island all the time, right? First of all, it’s important to go through the bachelor’s course.”

“That’s right. Still, I might be out of Aken Island for about a week next week. It’s not confirmed yet, but I can put in an application for a public charge.”

“Gong-gyeol? Do you go to public events?”

“No, that… it’s complicated, so to speak…”

I told Tanya exactly the conversation I had with Saint Clarisse at the camp last night.

Prayer meeting at Cleric Monastery.

The news that Princess Persica is visiting a place where distinguished guests attend.

And additionally, the words that Clarisse said in a flower color.

“He asked me if I would like to attend the prayer meeting with him. He said that if I go with him, it will not be boring, but rather exciting.”

“…Saint Clarice talks so much? I can’t quite imagine…”

“…”

“What to say, I’ve never seen her having a long private conversation. Why, is that so? Saint Clarisse seems… very mature… kind… and that’s why…”

I remember Clarisse standing in my cabin holding a chair to punish me.

When I think of the time when I was trembling with tears in my eyes, I feel a sense of incongruity in Tanya’s words.

“Wait a minute… Cleric Monastery?”

“Yes. Do you know?”

“Of course I know. Our Ross Taylor family was also baptized by the Telos Church. The family where the head of the household was baptized sends a representative to attend the prayer meeting at the monastery as a courtesy.”

“Are you gone?”

“I’m the most easy-going. I’m the one who inherited the blood of the family head, but I’m not busy or in a hurry right now… If I go as the representative, I’ll save quite a bit.”

I could understand why many VIPs attended the prayer meeting. Most of them are heirs sent by the family level.

Since they were the people who had come as representatives to show an example to the Church of Telos, there was a high possibility that the place would be quite assorted.

Tanya thought for a moment, then twisted her lips and put on an uncomfortable expression.

“I… don’t really recommend going there…”

“I see…”

“In the first place, it’s the Geumnam District. From what I remember going into when I was young… I thought it was a really weird place. Men couldn’t even set foot unless it was really helpless maintenance personnel or a high-ranking priest like an archbishop. … But when Ed’s brother goes in, it really explodes.”

I’m not in a very comfortable position either.

In addition, if it is assumed that you pay a public vote and attend the prayer meeting, it becomes a story that you have to skip all classes.

From my point of view, which is digesting each episode with great care, it is not very welcome.

Even so, it is said that it is a place where a big variable called Princess Persica appears… I can’t help but be stepped on in my heart.

“How does my brother get into a place that has been thoroughly maintained as Geumnam District for over 100 years?”

“He said he would try to push it somehow as an assistant to Saint Clarisse. With a roughly magical reason.”

“No, it would be difficult to make exceptions to such a long tradition so easily… It would be difficult, but it might be possible with the saintess’ authority.”

“…”

“The people of the Church of Telos are eccentric people who sacrifice pretty much anything for the comfort and convenience of the saintess. Certainly, it’s nothing special… Bringing in a man might be a feasible cause… They have a definite purpose. …”

“So, is your opinion that it’s better not to go?”

At my question, Tanya nodded without mercy.

“There is an image of a mysterious space that was originally built on the coast and can only be entered at low tide… but after spending a few days there, it’s just a different world where people who don’t know the world gather.”

“Well, I’m expecting that too.”

“It is said that they are noble nuns who follow the will of God, but they are also used by aristocratic families to force mischievous daughters to go into exile or to send them into exile. There are also many orphans who have been abandoned due to circumstances, or illegitimate children whose births cannot be announced.”

Those who follow God’s will and pray. Once that business card runs, the darkness of birth and the temperament of a tomboy that is embarrassing to let go are somehow covered.

“It’s a place where there are a lot of really faithful believers, and even kids with family backgrounds gather. Anyway, it’s a neighborhood where only they share the joys and sorrows among themselves.

“What does that mean?”

Tanya trembled as she spoke, wondering if there was something that could be trodden on by her memory.

“I told you that among the manpower due to the maintenance of the monastery, there was a mix of men. Most of them are construction workers, so they are shabby or bearded men.”

“…”

“There were many cases where even such people fell in love with the nuns and were blown away. There is no immunity to men to the extent that I wonder if this makes sense. With… that… it’s hard to say…”

I think he was trying to say something… I was afraid to ask him more.

“Anyway, I lived in Cledric Monastery for a few days, and there were some nuns I started talking to or became quite close with. By the way, even just eye contact with a real man makes me imagine the series of events leading up to the twilight years of my life as a companion. …?”

“…”

“Even against those rambunctious men! How would you feel if someone like you fell in a place like that…! They’re the perfect age group, and they have a smooth appearance…!”

What kind of memories do Tanya have of the time she spent at Cleric Monastery?

Seeing him seriously dislike it, I couldn’t bear to respond.

“It’s just… a natural disaster… a natural disaster! No wonder things get complicated, and accidents are much more likely. So… don’t go there… I never recommend it. Relationships around you If you think about it, it’s absolutely the opposite. Never!”

After a long speech like that, Tanya buried herself on the sofa again and gasped for breath.

Then Tanya took a moment to calm down… and then seemed to realize that she was overheated.

“That… I was so mad that I only talked about myself. I’m sorry, older brother.”

“No… that… I understand your opinion.”

It is the Cleric Monastery that even the faithful Saint Clarisse did not want to go to.

Tanya in her childhood, what a terrible time she had there.

I didn’t know what to say to Tanya’s reaction… There was only an awkward atmosphere in the president’s room for a while.

*Today is Yenika whose schedule is over with morning classes only. She had already returned to camp and was preparing dinner.

Usually, I would choose a meal menu with Ed or consult on how to cook it based on the remaining ingredients, but today I am preparing it entirely by myself.

Being proud of the current situation of preparing a meal in advance and waiting for Ed to return, Jenika rolled up her arms and hummed naturally.

I was thinking about what to eat while checking the number of meats, vegetables, and spices prepared in the camp.

“Oh, bye bye…!”

A guest came to the camp.

Ed’s Cottage Camp is quite remote, even in the North Woods, so guests rarely come by chance unless they come on purpose.

So most of the people who came to the camp were Ed’s acquaintances.

“…?”

Yenika, who had been checking the ingredients for a while, looked at the source of the sound with puzzled eyes. When I asked who she was, she was Patriciana Bloom River, a 4th year member of the Ministry of Magic.

I’m not close with them, but I know their existence. Jenika’s position.

From Patriciana’s point of view, she doesn’t know Yenika Failover, the celebrity of the bachelor, and even feels a strange affinity.

Still, since they weren’t close enough to each other, Patriciana hesitated as she spoke to Yenika.

“Yeah, that’s Yenika…? I heard you live in this camp…?”

“…Um, so… Patriciana-senpai?”

“Uh, yes! You remembered my name. Yes… that’s right, I’m Patriciana.”

Looking at Patriciana approaching suspiciously, Yenika tilted her head.

Yenica doesn’t even know that Patriciana’s secret laboratory is in the northern forest. Merilda was aware of that fact, but she didn’t bother to tell Yenica.

If you went in to report every move in the forest to Yenika, you would have to talk about the forest all day long.

In the end, even if the information that the spirits tell Yenika is, it is bound to be based on what Yenika thinks she should know.

“Ed and I got to know each other because of work… It wasn’t very pleasant, but… No, anyway, is there any time?”

Patriciana hesitated and looked around.

Then, he took out the reagent from his bosom and smiled awkwardly.

“I have something interesting… would you like to hear my story…?”

Yenika, who was tilting her head with an innocent expression, said yes with an innocent face. I was just asking.

For a while, I had to spend time giving a long speech about the effectiveness of the reagents in my hands.

At first, Yenika, who had been listening to the story with interest… Eventually, her expression began to harden little by little.

No matter how much it is, isn’t it too much to use medicine regardless of the person’s will in order to make people open their minds?

I tried to say sternly that I had no intention of tampering with such insidious things, but…

Unfortunately, Jenika was already in the position of being reported by the spirits on Ed’s every move.

If I had to say it, rather than receiving a report, the spirits were just chattering to Jenika on their own, but…

Anyway, I’m not in a position to openly talk about my heart…!

That fact began to bloom in Jenika’s mind.

“Uh, how is it…? Is it okay? Wouldn’t a lot of people be interested if I told you about this effect…?”

“Oops… Ugh…”

Yenica shook her head while looking at the reagent in Patriciana’s hand, as if she had imagined something happy.

“No matter how much it is, it’s not like it’s not, Patriciana-senpai!”

“Uh, yeah…?”

“It’s not polite to the other person… This only makes things worse in the long run…”

What the spirits are talking about, Ed was also conscious to some extent. It’s just that Ed himself doesn’t care much.

But isn’t tampering with such a reagent completely against Ed’s will and testing him?

Sadly, there is no way that sad Jenika, who is said to be the second best in terms of kindness, will open her hands to such reagents.

However, from Patriciana’s point of view, it must have been a shock… She was looking at Yenika with wide eyes.

“Yeah, it can’t be…”

“First of all, I have no intention of doing that… Senior Patriciana. These reagents… Please just take them back with you…”

Patriciana quietly watches Jenika, who calmly expresses her intention of refusal.

Looking at that firm figure, now I started to feel a strange sense of resistance again.

“You always do a great job, Mr. Bell.”

Corridor of Ophelis Hall.

Tracyana, who came out of her room, spoke to Bell, the maid who was instructing her to tidy up the hallway.

“Petrin stopped by earlier, did you see where he went?”

“You mean Miss Patriciana? Do you have business? Then I’ll send someone to deliver it to you.”

“Oh, no… I think I’ll have to find it myself… That something… I’m suddenly nervous…”

“…yes?”

Tracyana, who was looking at Belle, was twisting her body while holding her staff in her arms as if she was anxious.

“It’s just that… there are times when I wonder if I’m going to have another accident…”

“I see. If Lady Tracyana says that, there must be a reason for everything…”

Bell rested her chin on her chin and pondered for a moment before continuing.

“Wouldn’t it be too hard on yourself to buy and worry about something that hasn’t happened yet?”

“Is that so…?”

“If something happens, I will take action so that Lady Tracyana can be reported immediately. Don’t worry too much about it.

“Well, if you say so… I see…”

Tracyana said that with a bewildered face and went back to her room.

“…”

Bell, who had sent Tracyana, tilted her head for a moment, then turned around to give the order to clean up again.

As expected, after school started, the workload suddenly increased. Bell was also unconscious.