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XVIII.

There was considerable pain before entrusting the education of the hero’s descendants, so-called candidates, to Evergreen Academy.

Although some nobles objected and there was talk of raising them in their own countries, this was ignored in the beginning. By the Temple of Caligo.

However, the reason why the author expressed it with the word ‘pain pain’ here is because the Evergreen Academy did not want to accept the candidate.

Various reasons were given, but according to someone close to Evergreen Academy, Dean Hu strongly refused, saying, ‘My academy is not a place to take care of children who can’t even cover their own pee!’

―32 From Biographies of Heroes, by Sally de Silversword.

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After the chaos at the Academy, the storm that started at Evergreen Academy was not limited to what happened within the Academy or the Evergreen city-state.

Maybe it’s natural. Among the things Dean Hu said in the auditorium was that Professor Yirgacheffe was lumped in with the graduates related to him.

It was something that would naturally cause a huge uproar once it became known, so some people may be wondering why this is such a big deal.

However, all of this uproar did not spread through the mouths of academy students or professors who were in the auditorium that day.

So, this means that it was not greatly inflated by the rumor spreading like dry ice spreading under the ankles like ordinary secret history or rumors.

Dean Hu actively revealed this fact to the entire continent at once. After yelling at the professors who were trying to dissuade him from doing so, he told them to shut up.

Screenplay: Dean Hu;

Cast: Dean Hu,

Director: Dean Hu;

Distribution: Church of Caligo.

That would be about the same.

Later, after some embellishment, the dean publicized the story of Professor Yirgacheffe, who was killed by his own hands in the lecture hall, on the continent.

―Professor Yirgacheffe, involved in the first ever admissions corruption case at Evergreen Academy. He apologized to his students and professors and committed suicide for his honor.

When I heard the dean announce that after the fact, I scoffed. Would you believe that? Is there anyone who believes?

But, surprisingly and absurdly, I believe it. Is that the attitude of protecting the honor of a nobleman?

Professor Yirgacheffe’s work seemed to be finished like that. I thought it would end like that and didn’t care. No, I tried not to.

That’s because I was eager to go into a private training center and try my hand at spearing. Maybe it’s the aftermath of seeing blood?

But the incident did not end there. No, to put it more accurately and directly, the crazy guy in this area is not one to get things done that easily.

okay.

After that, the dean said.

He first touched the graduates.

Dean Hu delivers a very harsh notice to the graduates related to Professor Yirgachev.

―Return your academy diploma or take the exam again.

Just being notified of that fact is a huge disgrace. Because it meant that everything I had built up as a graduate of Evergreen Academy would be denied.

In addition, they had to bear the disgrace of being the ones who bought their diplomas with money.

Naturally, there were those who opposed it. Especially among young graduates who have just graduated.

However, their opposition did not last even two hours.

I don’t know how he did it, but Dean Hu established multiple communications with the four students who objected. Afterwards, Dean Hu said,

“So, the fact that you’re spewing bullshit after eating an expensive steak means that you don’t want to return your diploma or take a re-exam, right?”

After hearing the Dean’s question, we all hesitated, but to summarize,

―I was friendly with Professor Yirgacheffe, but I had nothing to do with his corruption!

This was it.

Looking at those graduates, Dean Hu was not angry at all. Rather, he smiled as he discovered an interesting toy,

“Really? I get it. Well, I did too much.”

After saying that and raising the corners of his mouth, the faces of the women and men on the four screens light up at the dean’s remarks.

“It’s mine, but I’m telling you not to bring it to me. I have to get it myself.”

That’s what I said. Question marks appeared on the faces of the graduates on the four screens of the multi-communication channel for a moment, and soon the four screens were filled with torn screams. And there were places where blood splattered and the screen turned red.

Dean Hu is smiling like a child innocently removing the wings of a dragonfly.

On the long table in front of him were four bracelets that must be worn to enter Evergreen Academy. But it wasn’t just the bracelet. The lower part of the wrist where the bracelet was worn came with a human hand.

“Application of teleportation.”

He said that while calmly shrugging his shoulders at the main culprit that created this situation. As if bragging.

Then, he casts a ‘preservation’ spell on the four hands that are oozing blood. When asked if he was casting a preservation spell so that his hands could be reattached when his disciples come to visit him in the future, he said,

“Huh? Do you think it would be okay to preserve only this part? Shouldn’t new skin have already grown on the cut side? It doesn’t stick. This. No, I can’t attach it? Anyway, I plan to hang this in the main building of the academy.”

“What are you going to use it for by hanging it there?”

“Is there any evidence from actual cases that if you get caught in a gurachida, your hair will be blown off?”

Dean Hu was not a person who only talked loudly.

He even set up a glass cabinet at the entrance to the academy’s main building to display his wrist with four Evergreen Academy graduation certificates hanging on it.

With momentum, right that afternoon.

Inside this glass cabinet, there was also a tree branch-shaped structure made of transparent glass, and care was taken to display it by hanging the wrist and bracelet on the branch.

What I couldn’t understand was the reaction of the academy students.

As if they had no idea that their wrists could end up like that, a crowd of people formed in front of the decoration cabinet. Some people even filmed videos using the Evergreen Pad and uploaded them to ‘Greenstagram.’

According to the clown’s explanation, it is very difficult to simply remove a body part from the body of a being using divine power using a magic called ‘teleportation’. Even Circle 9 is a magic that is difficult for those who have been trained to some extent to succeed?

This is proof that the four people had a low level and were negligent in their training. Those four limbs.

What happened up to this point was incredible. So much so that it caused an uproar in many media outlets.

However, after making me feel the wall, the dean’s eccentricity, no, his crazy behavior did not stop there.

Dean Hu distributed the video of the ‘Unfilled Wrist’, an armoire he had made, throughout the continent through the Caligo denomination.

Below the video like the photo,

―If you want your wrist to be caught in an empty spot, you can always play pranks on me and Evergreen.

By writing this.

After that day, the remaining 31 graduates and current students chose one of two options: retest or return their diplomas.

All but two people took the test again, that is, the test.

The result was very shocking: all of them failed.

Naturally, graduates and current students who took the test protested. The argument was that the problem was too difficult. Dean Hu then did not offer much of a counterargument, but rather coolly nominated several students to solve the same problem.

A second-year academy student only passed the sparring match with the professor that was given to graduates of the Department of Engineers.

The problem posed to the economics department graduates was solved by a senior in less than 5 minutes.

Even the problem posed to the students of the Faculty of Magic was not solved by a student of the Faculty of Magic, but by a 4th year student who had solved it in 5 minutes as there was time left.

It was like this.

In fact, the 29 people who took the retest suffered more embarrassment than the two who gave up their qualifications.

They very earnestly and earnestly asked that the test results be kept secret. However, Dean Hu smiled very kindly and readily answered, ‘Bullshit!’

They even recorded the process of people in their 30s starting the test, raising objections in the middle, students solving problems too easily, and even making rotten faces when they heard the answer that they proposed to the dean was ‘bullshit’. They sent it to the country.

It was even wrapped beautifully with a gold ribbon, along with the phrase ‘Gift – Caution: Very funny.’

This alone would have caused the continent to be in an uproar, but when some idiot in one country started an argument, the continent became very noisy, befitting the expression ‘upset’.

The main character is the Phoenician kingdom.

The biggest feature of this kingdom is that it has the second famous academy on the continent. Ranking second can be said to be very impressive, but in fact, there are only two comprehensive educational institutions on the continent with the name ‘Academy’, so it is in fact last place.

It is said that Phoenician Academy always had a great sense of inferiority towards Evergreen Academy. Well, I have no idea.

Anyway, a formal complaint was made to the dean of the Phoenician Academy. To summarize the content that filled two and a half sheets of parchment in a formal and hesitating manner,

―Can you call it an academy because you have such corrupt professors? Now we will use the best academy on the continent. Hmm? ㅇ ㅇㅈ! Fuck you? (Acknowledge this? Yes, I admit it! Can’t refute this?)

After receiving such a letter from the Dean of the Phoenician Academy, the Dean directly communicated with the King of the Phoenician Kingdom. In fact, according to the clown’s explanation, it is more appropriate to say that the channel was forcibly ‘opened’ rather than ‘connected’.

At the time, there was a meeting in Daejeon, and Dean Hu spoke to Magic Communications,

“You mean we are not trustworthy? Then, we can exclude those from Phoenician noble families from the unreliable Evergreen Academy admissions process. There happens to be an academy in your country, right? go there Don’t come this far for no reason.”

He was ‘notified’.

It was natural for the king and nobles to be overthrown. Less than an hour after the notification, envoys from the Kingdom of Phoenicia arrived.

However, Dean Hu did not provide the ‘Evergreen Bracelet’, which is essential to enter Evergreen.

After waiting outside the door for a long time, they were finally able to come in the next day, accompanied by a graduate from Phoenicia.

However, after their difficult and long-awaited meeting, the dean’s attitude was stubborn, and he insisted on excluding children of Phoenician nobles from the admissions process starting next year.

Of course there was an uproar. Continent? No, the Phoenician Kingdom.

In fact, if the Phoenician Academy in their country was truly worthy of second place, they wouldn’t have hung on like this. Although Evergreen Academy has non-combat departments, including the economics department and the history department, the largest number of them are the combat departments, which are divided into knights, magic, and special departments.

And the reputation of this combat school was so efficient and great that no place on the continent could match it.

The object of comparison referred to here as ‘somewhere’ also includes ‘The Cradle of the Unmanned’, ‘The Tower of the Wise Man’, and the 11 Magic Towers.

Phoenician Academy?

They are places that cannot even be compared in the first place.

In fact, the number of people who graduated from Evergreen Combat School and failed to become a Sword Master or Circle 6 within 10 years was so small that you could count them on one hand.

In other words, no matter what, on the continent, a sword master or higher, or a circle 6 wizard, was a strategic weapon that exerted tremendous power in war.

It is only natural that the Phoenician kingdom, which lost such weapons and was on the verge of extinction, would stamp its feet like this.

To make matters worse, the dean of the Phoenician Academy, who had written a letter to the later dean to quarrel with him, was being shamed across the entire continent after his various improprieties and corruptions were revealed.

This means that a dog covered in poop is scolding a dog with a speck of dust on it.

The Kingdom of Phenicia was experiencing diplomatic problems, with members from Evergreen Academy rebelling inside due to a foolish dean, and those outside already speculating that the Kingdom of Phenicia would soon decline.

Some people even predicted that within 10 years, the continent’s national power from 4 out of 7 out of 2 strong would change to 5 out of 6 out of 2 strong.

In the Kingdom of Phoenicia, even today, after waiting for as long as 6 hours, we are barely able to meet the later dean and are trying hard to change his mind.

At this point, you might be curious.

How could I, a lowly citizen from Creşti, know this series of situations in such detail, so intimately, down to the background and circumstances?

“Dean. That was never the will of our kingdom. This is the personal opinion of the former dean of the Phoenician Academy, that idiot.”

“Oh? Would you like to cut off your tail?”

“Cut off the tail. no! It’s true! Please believe me! We’re not really! I didn’t know!!”

Like now, some things are seen ‘first-hand’, and other things are heard directly from the people involved. It’s not just this one. They should have noticed that day when they placed me on the podium with them in the auditorium.

Yirgacheffe – I remember the name now. Even though he died – more than 15 days have passed since the professor died, I have had to spend more than three hours a day with this old man.

escape? refuse?

You can have such lukewarm thoughts because you have never dealt with a crazy person with your true heart. First of all, you know that running away is nonsense, right? Where is this place?

Actually, that’s why I’m thinking about it again these days. Going to Evergreen Academy. Of course, since the heads of all countries on the continent have agreed that ‘candidates must receive education at Evergreen,’ they cannot leave if they want to, but isn’t it up to them to decide how to do it?

Rejection… … . You’re not really thinking that I haven’t tried it, right?

I tried it. I tried it even though I cursed unspeakably.

However, Mushi returned.

He completely ignores them and says only what he has to say. If what you have to say is enlightenment about a certain martial art, I will listen patiently, but this is not even that. He explained diligently the matters I had mentioned so far, that is, the work he had done.

And just like now, they are forced to invite people to sit in these places. If you just let me sit down, I will do it.

“What do you think?”

People often ask me questions like this out of the blue.

Then, the envoys who were in the midst of asserting their claims and the people who visited the dean later stared at me intently. I’m sure I’m glaring at him. With a look that says they won’t leave you alone if you say nonsense.

Why are you staring? The dean later made me sit next to him like this every time.

First of all, clothing.

I couldn’t decide whether to stay at the academy or leave, so I didn’t buy any clothes.

In other words, I am wearing the same clothes I was wearing when I was white. Sometimes Alfred would bring me clothes, but I didn’t wear them on purpose. For some reason, it felt like I was given wrapping paper to decorate it well and show it to others.

And you must have heard rumors about me. He is the last candidate from Creşti. From the low class.

Since the kingdom of Phoenicia has an exceptionally strong purism of nobles, I must feel ridiculous and offended.

Regretful.

If they had at least found out a little more about me, they wouldn’t have known that giving me that look would have the opposite effect. It felt like I was really trying these past few days… . Cha-am, it’s okay.

“What do I know?”

“I told you to say it without leaving it out? When you see it, you’re a guy with good senses. I will follow your decision.”

The dean later recommended it again as if he would follow my decision. Then, the nobles of the Phoenician kingdom also looked at me with a certain anticipation and threatening eyes.

“You follow my decision. Won’t you regret it?”

Later, when I asked the dean that question, the light of hope in their eyes became brighter.

Hope. That’s a really good word.

“I am not a student who officially entered the academy, but from a third party’s perspective, I feel like the dean has gone too far.”

You can hear someone gulping and swallowing. And five heads nodding as if competing.

“It’s not ‘discrimination’.”

“That’s right!”

“People from Phoenicia will not be accepted starting next year? Then, it would be unfair to the children preparing for the entrance exam next year. therefore… … .”

“Of course! That’s exactly what I said… … ?”

“All current students should be expelled. No, it’s ‘unfair’ if some people take the exam and go to the academy, and some people don’t, just 1 or 2 years apart. It’s not ‘discrimination’.”

The faces of the five nobles all distorted at once. The choreography of some famous idol was so synchronized that it made me think they were making a ‘kku-g-g-ji-u!’ sound at the same time, to the point of telling them to go away.

“But I heard there is an academy in that country too. I don’t know the name, but I heard there’s something similar to an academy. Is that right?”

When I asked the people who had their faces wrinkled with expressions like “I don’t know anything,” the oldest man among them nodded. Don’t you think you can’t bear to drop your mouth?

“Then you can go there. Academy Well, it’s all there, right? It’s a place that teaches things like cutting with a sword and shooting magic. Why come so far for no reason?”

“… … What?”

“Isn’t that so? If it were me, I would just go somewhere nearby. Well, you wouldn’t know if there was no academy to go to there… … .”

hope.

That’s a really good word.

For some reason, it’s like a stress-relieving ice cup that makes a pleasant, cool sound every time you break it.

“Pfft! Haha, hahahahaha!!”

Dean Hu laughed really hard. He laughed and said, ‘Ouch! They are so busy laughing that you can even hear the sound of ‘Gwake!’ At first glance, it looks like you might die laughing?

“That’s right.”

After coming to his senses after a while, the meeting that day ended with the dean saying those words. Even after the envoys from the Phoenician kingdom, who retreated with slumped shoulders, left, unlike usual, I did not leave the dean’s office.

“Aren’t you going to practice today?”

“I’d also like to ask you something I’m curious about.”

“Sure.”

He says so with a grumpy face and tone and lies down on the long sofa. It looks like there is absolutely no limit.

However, we do not laugh at him or look down on him like that. No, I can’t. Now that I have reached a conclusion that I have been pondering for over the past 15 days.

“What do you want?”

“Huh?”

“Why exactly are you trying to impress me?”