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Ceresria slowly moved to the infirmary where Astan was resting. Of course, I was laughing at the thought that Astan would be very uncomfortable due to his personality if he heard that he was in an infirmary used only by royals and nobles, and not in the same infirmary as the other participants.

I thought he was a cat-like person. Isn’t it fun? I keep looking around like a cat because I’m in a new place instead of my original one, but I didn’t complain that it was uncomfortable. I just thought it was cuter than I thought that he kept looking around with a strange feeling and walking around as if he wanted to say something.

I knew that after the banquet, there were many nobles who wanted to talk to Astan about marriage. Wouldn’t it be natural? Now, a first year student from the academy has come to the palace. How many wizards can enter the palace? Even if you search all of Jingara, there probably won’t be many. So, it was natural that it would attract people’s attention.

If I were to be honest, I think his appearance may have played a role, but he didn’t leave the impression that he was that handsome at the Academy Awards. The Araelia person you see everywhere, an ordinary person with brown hair and green eyes.

However, Astan is different now. Eye-catching ice-like silver hair and mysterious purple eyes. It was no different from the appearance of heroes in novels or movies.

I wonder if it was given by Denatus, but those were also strange words. Denatus, the goddess of death, does not grant her blessings easily. There may be quite a few who have defied death, but among them, very few wizards have shown such tremendous growth.

Denatus is also indifferent, or Fea may have given Astan the fate of overcoming death… …

He was a strange person. Araelia is said to be able to read the thoughts of others thanks to the grace of Ariel, the goddess of beauty. That was correct, and sometimes I could naturally see what Astan was thinking when I saw him, but I couldn’t see him after that.

The more I dug into my thoughts, the more I couldn’t read them, as if they were blocked by something.

As she followed the familiar path and opened the door to the infirmary, she saw Astan sitting in his seat meditating with his eyes closed. Celestria smiled softly and sat in front of him, looking at Astan.

I thought that I would become a wizard who would lead Araelia in the future. If I had the magical eye of wisdom, I would have tried to see that fate, but I did not have that talent.

I slowly opened my closed eyes and exhaled. Perhaps because I had consumed a lot of mana, my mana was not fully recovered, but anything that got in the way of walking or something like that was gone, so the moment I slowly got up, I saw her.

“It’s already night.”

“… … When did you come?”

“Well, I can’t say the exact time since I came in the middle of meditation, but I didn’t expect to meditate for this long.”

“Shouldn’t you go back to the palace?”

“Is there any reason why the royal family can’t go where they want to go?”

She handed me a potion, and I took it carefully, opened the lid, and poured the potion into my mouth. As I was feeling the sweet yet sour taste of the medicine, I naturally felt like my expression was frowning.

“This is a potion given by the King himself.”

“Seong-eun must be devastated, right?”

“That’s it, whatever you want.”

She smiled and looked around the infirmary before speaking to me.

“I’m going back to the academy tomorrow morning. Do you have any disagreements?”

“I want to go back tonight.”

“If Astan wants, he can go back tonight.”

“Then I will go back tonight.”

“But to go to Ignolia, you need the scroll I have.”

“Then isn’t it impossible?”

“Can you persuade me to get the scroll?”

The moment I saw her smile, I sighed inside. It means I will never go back tonight. I couldn’t get that thought out of my head. The fact that she said this was proof that she was saying something strange again.

“If I go tomorrow morning, I might be late for lecture.”

“No matter how late you are, you won’t be late for the lecture, because we also have a scroll that takes you directly to the academy.”

“I think it is rude to rent the knights’ lodgings.”

“The knights would rather be proud that there is a highly skilled wizard here.”

“No matter what I say, I don’t think your opinion will change.”

“That is also the correct answer.”

She smiled and put her hand on my shoulder and smiled.

“So, let’s get some rest first. No matter how many potions you take, it takes quite a while to recover the mana once used.”

“I will keep this in mind.”

She walked out of the infirmary, and I slowly inhaled and exhaled. Perhaps due to taking the potion, mana recovery was progressing somewhat quickly, but it was not yet complete. Thinking that I had to go back to my dorm first, I left the infirmary and slowly exited the stadium.

“I enjoyed watching the game.”

On the way back to my lodgings, Sir Shurn, whom I met in the square, smiled and spoke to me, and I slightly bowed my head in greeting.

“I’m glad you were satisfied.”

“If I hadn’t stopped them, one of them would have died.”

“I wouldn’t have died.”

There was minimal protection magic, so death would not have come, but somewhere in the body would have been burned.

“The spectators in the stadium may have died.”

I couldn’t deny it. If my magic and Ceresria’s magic had collided, there could have been an explosion, or the heat and cold could have harmed the spectators in the stadium.

“It looks like Araelia’s protection magic is weaker than I thought.”

I suddenly felt that the words that came out of my mouth bordered on arrogance. In the past, I would never have said this. However, now I felt like something had become strange. Maybe it’s because the people around me are so strong, but if not, then I am.

Maybe I’ve become strange somewhere.

“This is because the protection magic was not created with you and the princess as the reference points. And the wizards of Araelia probably didn’t even think that you and the princess would be that strong.”

I slowly nodded my head at those words and moved to the dormitory with Shurn.

“Are you going back to the academy now?”

“I think I will go back tomorrow morning, even though I want to go back now.”

“It’s Araelia’s last night, so why not try something you want to do?”

“I would like to sleep at the accommodation now.”

“Then I won’t bother you.”

Shurn spoke to me and then headed somewhere, and I slowly moved towards my dorm.

“It’s only been a few days, but this is the first time I’ve ever felt like I miss the Academy.”

Celestria smiled slightly at my words and looked at the academy with me.

“I hope there’s nothing special about today’s class, I’m tired.”

“So, didn’t I ask you to go to the academy last night?”

“It’s my hometown. How many people would want to leave their hometown?”

“I have nothing to say.”

At my answer, Ceresria smiled and looked at me.

“Shall we go to the restaurant? I guess I should eat breakfast.”

“Let’s go first, I’ll stop by the dormitory for a moment and then come back.”

“It’s not because you don’t like eating with me, right?”

“If I really didn’t like it, I wouldn’t have left without saying anything.”

“When I came to the academy, I returned to the Astan I knew, the Astan who was very playful and always scared of me. That wasn’t the case in Araelia.”

“Don’t you have the status of a princess there?”

“Don’t you think it’s strange that this academy usually regards me as a princess?”

As I said those words, Ceresria burst out laughing at me, and I scratched the back of my neck and opened my mouth.

“Anyway, I’ll go first.”

“Okay, you won’t have breakfast with me, so see you in the classroom.”

Then I bowed my head to her and slowly walked towards the dormitory.

By now, Sharon was getting ready to go to the restaurant. Sharon was curious about what happened during this holiday. Above all, if there is someone I want to meet the most right now, that person would probably be Erica-senpai.

In order to develop my ice magic, I naturally needed senior Erica’s help. Since my magic was no different from Erika-senpai’s imitation, the thought of asking Erika-senpai a question was leaking through my body.

As I was waiting in front of the door of a familiar dormitory, many students were coming out of the dormitory and heading to the cafeteria. After waiting for a while, a familiar face was looking at me, smiling and waving.

“When I heard the story, I heard that you went to your hometown during this holiday?”

“And you? Did you do anything during the holidays?”

“It’s no different, read books at the academy, rent a training room and practice magic, that’s it.”

“I was more bored than I thought.”

“If it were you, we could have gone for a walk together in Ignolia, but it’s a pity.”

Sharon walked next to me and headed toward the restaurant, and I started to follow her.

“Can I request a match later?”

“I would lose.”

“You never know, you might win.”

Because you are the main character.

I muttered those words in my heart.