Go Arinmon! I Choose You!

The incident at the casino was wrapped up relatively quietly.

One reason was that everyone in the casino fled as soon as the fight broke out, but the main reason was that the temple took the lead in handling the incident.

Naturally, with the temple, which could be considered the highest authority in the kingdom along with the Phara royal family, taking action, it could only be handled quickly and quietly.

Although I felt a bit guilty for receiving too much help, I couldn’t even apologize because as soon as the Pope saw my expression, he laid out praises for me and said there was no need to feel burdened.

Anyway, with the temple taking charge, this casino incident was quietly concluded, and afterwards I was able to receive two pieces of news from the Pope.

The first was the reason why the private soldiers at the casino were not visible.

At the time, I had just let it go thinking it was for the best, but I thought it was a bit strange, and sure enough, all the private soldiers had already been killed.

Judging by the demonic energy remaining on the corpses, it was undoubtedly the work of demons. Moreover, seeing that they died from sorcery, it was 100% certain to be Idea’s doing.

They probably left the demonic energy like that to divert attention if necessary. The reason was clearly visible even with rough thinking, given that this incident had a clear purpose.

And the second piece of news I received from the Pope was that although we tried to hide it as much as possible, people remembered Yujia’s green hair.

Since I was wearing a mask at the casino and my outfit was completely different, no one would recognize me for certain, but there aren’t many people with green hair, so the Pope informed me to be careful for a while.

I had hoped this wouldn’t happen, but to think it would end up like this after all.

No, thinking about it differently, maybe it ended at this level because I had hoped for it, but I couldn’t help resenting the god who made this reality happen.

But isn’t that god Iriel?

Indeed, Iriel is clearly a god with nothing good about her. When I meet her on the Day of Divine Manifestation, I really should slap her once.

After receiving the news from the Pope, I once again embraced the thought I had had many times before, and now that everything related to the casino was over.

Needless to say, I was at the academy to fulfill my duties.

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“This is boring…”

In the professors’ office after finishing a class.

I muttered while listlessly slumping over the desk.

“It’s really not fun at all…”

One of the emotions I’ve been feeling every time I come to the academy recently.

To be honest, the classes at the academy these days were damn boring.

Of course, it’s fun to knead and roll the students under the pretext of classes and training according to my words, but that’s only when their growth is visibly noticeable.

Until a few weeks ago, the students were growing rapidly, and due to the incident in the underwater kingdom, that growth reached its peak, but recently, that growth has been stagnant.

Just as it becomes harder to level up in games as the level gets higher, in reality too, there comes a time when the growth rate suddenly drops, and that was the growth stagnation point.

To explain it in an easy-to-understand way, until now, one could say they were growing with the feeling of running up a slope. A slope where you could grow just by running.

However, as the slope gradually came to an end, they began climbing the cliff of limits to gain power beyond human limits, like myself now.

“Although there are differences in speed, without exception, everyone is in a period of growth stagnation, so it can’t be fun no matter how you look at it.”

And since this was no different even for the children who were the main characters, I would probably have to endure this period for a while.

In game terms, they’ve just reached the point of about level 65 to 70.

To break through the growth stagnation period, it would probably take about 2 more years.

Perhaps when they become third-year students, they’ll be able to hunt various monsters and magical beasts, so they’ll surely be able to break through the growth stagnation period quickly.

But the problem is that until then, I won’t have much to be happy about regarding the students’ growth at the academy.

“Haah…”

As I was sighing with various emotions mixed in because of this, suddenly I felt someone’s presence along with the sound of the door opening.

Since there was no knock, it couldn’t be a student, and it wasn’t Libby or Morgan as there were no footsteps.

In other words, it was one of Myu or Isolde who often fly around, but if it was Myu, she would have run to me like a puppy and hugged me as soon as she came in, so by process of elimination, there was only one person left.

“Is it Isolde?”

“Yes, you guessed exactly right.”

An answer coming back as soon as I uttered the name.

When I raised my head at that voice, I saw Isolde with her purple hair fluttering, standing on her staff.

“What brings you to my office suddenly?”

If it was Isolde at the temple, I would have understood if she said she came to read books, but surely she had already read all the books in the academy professor’s office.

Moreover, today Isolde was supposed to be enjoying free time with Myu, Morgan, and Libby in Kama’s office, so it was difficult to easily understand why Isolde, who was enjoying free time, came to see me.

“It’s nothing particularly important. I just received a letter addressed to you from Mute, so I thought I’d deliver it myself since I had nothing else to do.”

That’s why I had asked, but Isolde’s answer to my question was unexpectedly insignificant.

Isolde took out a letter from her bosom and handed it to me.

I tilted my head and took the letter Isolde handed over and examined it.

“A letter?”

“Yes, from what’s written, it seems to be a letter from the royal family.”

I stand corrected. It wasn’t an insignificant matter, but seemed to be more important than I thought.

Indeed, what was engraved on the sealing wax (the red seal used to seal letters) of the letter was the emblem of the Phara royal family. Moreover, it was the direct royal family emblem.

“Um, umm… It’s real.”

Although I’ve faced the king before, this was the first time receiving a letter directly, so I felt nervous.

The boredom that had been covering my heart until just now flew away completely.

And I took a deep breath for a moment to calm my pounding heart, and then took out a paper knife that I had rarely used from the tool drawer and cut off the sealing wax of the letter.

The letter’s seal was cut smoothly without any resistance.

Isolde had come to my side, probably curious about the contents, and since I didn’t think there was any need to hide the contents, I didn’t push her away either.

Eventually, I took out the letter paper from the opened envelope. Then the luxurious feel of the letter paper was slowly revealed.

I unfolded the letter paper without any hesitation and carefully read the contents written inside line by line.

And.

“…Hm?”

“…Ah?”

When we finished reading the letter, Isolde and I couldn’t help but utter exclamations of question at the same time.

Because the content written in the letter was none other than.

A request to administer the academy entrance exam for the Phara royal family’s princes.

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There are two entrance exams at Lua Academy.

The first is a written exam to assess basic knowledge levels.

The second is a practical exam to assess proficiency and talent with each weapon.

And given that Lua Academy produces numerous geniuses, the difficulty of passing both exams was very high, and only students who were filtered and filtered again could enter the academy.

Therefore, if one passes the exam, there is no distinction between commoners and nobles within the academy.

Since they all passed the same exam, it meant they were all the same students, so there was no need to divide them into separate classes.

However, unfortunately, there were also a few students who couldn’t let go of this elitist ideology.

Although quite a minority, there were some corrupt students among the academy students who were steeped in elitist ideology.

Typically, children of high-ranking nobles or lower nobles clinging to such nobles.

And lastly.

“Brother Tin! Can’t we take a break now?!”

“Pelian, you mustn’t be so weak. We must train hard and knock down the professor who’s coming today to firmly imprint our skills.”

The two princes of the Phara royal family who were going to enter the academy after taking the entrance exam belatedly.

Tin Phara and Pelian Phara.

They were boys who were the 1st and 2nd princes of the Phara royal family respectively.

They were boys who had talent in swordsmanship and delved into that, but they didn’t go beyond the level of just having talent.

However, they were still deeply steeped in elitist ideology, so one could hardly say they had good personalities even with kind words.

The reason these two were training now was none other than to wait for the professor who would administer the practical exam, who would arrive at the palace in a few hours.

The professor who would administer the practical exam that Tin, the first prince, had requested a few days ago by asking his father.

Tin was full of confidence in his skills, so he asked to bring a strong professor, and his father nodded lightly and agreed to that request.

And today was the day that professor, whose request had been agreed to like that, was coming.

If he could completely defeat the professor who was as strong as his father acknowledged and enter, he could raise his status as a prince without damaging his face.

It was Tin’s childish thought stemming from the elitist ideology that they were fundamentally different from the commoners crawling on the ground or the lower nobles living off scraps.

“I hope someone stronger than imagined comes. Even the kingdom’s knights couldn’t defeat us. It would be useless if they’re weak.”

“I agree with that.”

And being immersed in such childish thoughts, Tin and Pelian still didn’t know.

Who was coming to meet them.

Also, how much humiliation they would suffer from her actions towards them.