episode_0042
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“Are you guys feeling okay?”
The faces of the three people we met again in the exam room were literally reminiscent of dried corpses.
In particular, Chris’ complexion was bad, but unlike Almana Poser, who quickly fell asleep, it was because he stayed until the end to face my opponent.
It seemed like I was trying to open my mouth with the help of alcohol, but unfortunately, I cannot get drunk due to my constitution.
Even if he got drunk, he would have used detox magic to quickly get rid of it, so there was no way Chris’ cute plan would succeed.
‘How many bottles did this guy drink alone last night?’
I don’t remember how many bottles I drank after the tenth bottle, but I do remember that they were all alcoholic beverages with high alcohol content.
I don’t understand how this guy can stand upright right now.
“I had no anxiety factors in this exam, but because of you guys, I just had three.”
“… Poetry, noisy, wow–!!”
Alma, who was about to say something, stumbled from a sudden surge of nausea and leaned her upper body forward.
If things continued like this, all three of us would collapse before we even entered the forest.
I had no choice but to take out the honey from my inventory and speak to Chris, who was in the most serious condition.
“Now, open your mouth.”
When I put a little bit of honey on the tip of my finger and held it up to Chris, he quietly opened his mouth even though he thought something was strange.
“… … !!”
The moment the honey entered his mouth, Chris’s face, which had been like a corpse, began to come back to life.
His legs were full of strength, belying the fact that he had been unsteady just a moment ago, and his dull hair seemed to have become shiny.
“Next is the vomiting girl.”
“Oh, I haven’t vomited yet… !!!”
This time, she really looked like she was going to vomit, so I force-fed her some honey, and her face instantly turned into a lively one like Chris.
Finally, when I fed Port some honey, he quickly woke up from his intoxication and looked around with a dazed expression.
“Where am I? I was at home?”
“… How on earth did this guy get here?”
“We brought it here. What was that honey a little while ago? The hangover went away in no time… .”
“Ordinary honey.”
“Don’t mess around! Where is that kind of honey?!”
“Ah, you don’t know.”
In my hometown, Korea, it is a natural fact that a hangover can go away with just honey water.
This is the wisdom of our ancestors since ancient times, and the mural painting of Subakdo in a Goguryeo tomb clearly depicts Goguryeo people relieving hangovers with honey water.
… is shit.
This was a special honey made from pollen collected from flowers that was used to treat intoxication.
It has the effect of curing poison and paralysis, and also restores a small amount of stamina.
The reason I’m so lively right now is probably because of that effect.
“It’s a special honey made with alchemy. The hangover is completely gone, right?”
“Alchemy? Were you an alchemist?”
“Well… .”
There was no reason to tell the entire situation as is, so I explained it appropriately, and Chris nodded as if he understood something.
It seemed like there was some kind of misunderstanding, but there was no reason to correct that misunderstanding.
“Is everyone okay now?”
“Over there.”
“Huh?”
The poser suddenly raised his hand like a child, as if there was some problem, and everyone’s eyes turned to him.
“Do you have any more honey?”
“There is more. Why?”
“If I can, I’ll have one more drink before I go into the forest.”
Saying that, he drank the canteen on his belt as hard as he could and let out a foul sigh that made him feel drunk just by smelling it.
I wondered why that bastard brought a canteen, but was it alcohol inside?
“This guy looks like he’s going to be a nuisance. Should I just leave him here?”
“… … .”
There was no opposition.
The moment I raised my fist to make it easier to get one shot, I heard a whistle sound from far away.
It is the whistle that summons the team leader.
I had no choice but to put down the fist raised to the tip of my head and sigh.
“Tsk, the team leader is calling. I’ll be back for a little while, so in the meantime, I’m making sure that this kid doesn’t drink even a drop of alcohol. Would you like to go with Sarah?”
When I asked that because I thought it would be awkward to be left alone, Sarah nodded as if she had been waiting.
“It looks like they’re slowly going in now.”
“I heard that the entry point is chosen by drawing lots. Rumor has it that there are places where the flag is right nearby.”
That rumor is true.
Since the academy was a place so corrupt that teachers sold poison, such corruption was nothing.
“Just in case, take a good look at that bastard. There are rumors that the dean is from the warrior faction, so if there is such a thing, that bastard will definitely pick him.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll pick you well.”
With those words, Sarah and I walked under the tent where most of the team leaders were already gathered.
The person in charge of this test was Tyrone, the Academy’s Vice Dean. He looked wary when he saw me and Sarah entering the tent.
Tyrone was not a high-ranking noble, but he took advantage of the fact that he was the vice-dean of the academy to join the warrior faction.
It was natural for him to be wary of Sarah, the daughter of a member of the prime minister’s faction.
“Felt, only the team leader should have called, so why did the team members come too?”
“No? Should I ask him to wait outside?”
“… No, it’s done.”
No matter how different the faction was, Tyrone shook his head with a troubled expression, as if he could not treat a woman from a noble family of a higher rank than himself.
Now, with this, there will be no need to find strange faults and place people in a disadvantageous position.
Tyrone must have wanted to send us off as soon as possible, so he brought a lottery bucket and urged us to draw quickly.
‘Surely the hidden swallow was placed right next to the entrance?’
I put my hand in and felt around the side of the entrance, and sure enough, there was a swallow clinging to the ceiling.
“Now, here. It’s C-1.”
When the lot that Gus should have drawn came out, the two looked at each other with meaningful eyes.
“You did that… !!”
“Why? What’s the problem?”
Although it was an open secret that the Academy was corrupt, we could not say that we had committed any corruption in this place where many nobles gathered.
Tyrone stared at me for a long time with his blood-lined, blood-filled eyes, and then he seemed to be satisfied and motioned for me to go.
As I was about to leave the tent with my swallow, Gus suddenly blocked my path, relaxed his narrowed brows and said with his usual frivolous smile.
“Kasumi and Elise wanted to see you.”
“Then tell them I don’t like it. It’s uncomfortable, so if possible, avoid me.”
“… What?”
“And is Lina healthy? I thought he wasn’t here.”
As expected, when I mentioned Lina, who hadn’t come out of the room since that day, my frivolous smile began to crack.
Seeing the numb expression on his face as if he had just been punched, I finally realized why people do teabagging.
This is more fun than I thought.
“If you see Lina later, tell her my regards. Then I’ll go. Let’s go, Sarah.”
Ignoring the shouting coming from behind us, we returned to the clearing where the team was waiting.
*****
“I, return.”
When I returned to the place where the team members were gathered, the first person to greet me was a poser with his entire body tied tightly with rope and his eyes wide open.
For some reason, it seemed like this was going to happen, so I wasn’t surprised that the poser fainted.
This was the same for Sarah.
She glanced at the stunned poser as if she had no interest in him and immediately turned her head away.
“… Wow, due to an unfortunate accident, we started with one person missing. No problem, right?”
“None.”
I had a rough idea of what would happen after encountering a person called a poser at a bar yesterday, so this level of trouble was not even at the level of a problem.
The disqualification condition for the test is that three or more out of five students fail.
Of course, neither I nor Sarah will be eliminated, so all we have to do is protect one of these two people.
“Let’s talk about this idiot later. Do you think the lot was chosen well?”
“Hehehe.”
With a triumphant look on their faces, they showed the note with the number C-1 written on it, but unfortunately, they did not have the knowledge to tell whether this was a good position or not.
I tilted my head and asked what this was. When I told her it was a swallow that was attached to the entrance of the lottery box, Alma said with a surprised look on her face.
“Were those kids really manipulating things?!”
Chris also seemed quite surprised as he didn’t expect it to be real.
“I can’t believe it was hidden in such a crude way… . I feel like I’ve been treated like a fool.”
“On the other hand, it may have not been discovered until now because of the belief that something must be hidden in a great way.”
“I see… . But it’s time to enter soon. Is there anything you can prepare before then?”
“There is nothing in particular. If I had to say one thing, it would be a cart to carry idiots?”
“… Let’s take turns doing that.”
After a while, the whistle sounded to signal the start of the test, and we headed straight to Area C-1, the entry point.
Area C-1 was an open road like a walking trail, but the road was quite well-maintained, so it seemed like an artificially created road rather than a naturally created one due to frequent traffic.
While walking on a flat road, we inadvertently stopped at an unbelievable sight.
“Huh, really… .”
It was no wonder that such words came out of Sarah’s taciturn mouth after seeing it stuck on the floor.
We were so dumbfounded that we were speechless, but it wasn’t something that was particularly shocking and we were keeping our mouths shut.
“These bastards have no conscience.”
About 5 meters away, there were five red flags placed on the sand, crudely piled up as if made by children.
For reference, the number of flags planted in this testing center is twenty.
We retrieved 1/4 of the flags from the test site less than ten minutes after the test started.
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