episode_0098

As if to let us know that the exam was just around the corner, various assignments and problems were flying towards us during lectures. Of course, the lecture with the most assignments was alchemy, and I gradually began to get used to staying at the academy after the lecture and doing alchemy assignments.

I thought that boiling water and ingredients in a familiar pot, cooling it, putting it in a bottle, and checking the effect of the medicine. The more I learned about alchemy, the more bothersome it became. I thought that this was not a study for me.

The exam is coming soon, and after the exam, the vacation will be coming, but even if the vacation is coming, I thought that it would be more helpful to do something else rather than going back to my hometown and farming.

Last time I listened to Aunt Toa’s story, I heard that there was a banquet at the academy on the last day of the exam. A banquet at an academy isn’t a very appropriate word. Students who are supposed to study are having a banquet and having fun. If you think honestly, if there is a banquet, will they have fun? They won’t dance, they will eat. There is no need to worry about that because the place is always overflowing.

Well, it’s a strange place.

With that in mind, as I carefully packed the finished potion and walked to the dormitory, familiar faces passed by me. Although we were in the same class, we had never had a long conversation. I knew his name, but I had no intention of saying hello to him or doing it first.

If you were to ask a passerby about me at the academy, most people would probably be more familiar with the title rebel, and if not, they would say I was a strange person, but there was nothing wrong with that.

But no matter how much I thought about being a rebel, what kind of rebellion I had done, and why refusing a duel was such a problem, the more I sighed. Wizards always seek the unknown, so I may have been seen as a strange person, but I was a rebel.

Even now, people call me a rebel. Although they were called the Frost Queen’s disciples to the outside world, Erika-senpai had not yet returned to the academy, and Isabelle-senior was also out of town, so the only fifth-year students left at the academy were Arkadin-senpai, Chloe-senpai, and Leonard-senpai.

I heard that Chloe senior takes Sharon to do strange research every night, but since I’ve never seen her before, it’s natural to be curious.

As I left the academy and walked to the dormitory with familiar steps, I saw a young man with platinum-colored hair smiling at me and waving his hand.

“Are you on your way back now?”

“Uh, what about you?”

“Chloe senior called me.”

“What kind of research are you doing today? Last time I was researching, there was a rumor that all the plants in the academy’s garden had disappeared.”

“I restored it again, because the light growth medicine that Chloe made made the flowers grow too much, so the flowers died.”

“… … You won’t soon be given the title of rebel, right?”

“Because I didn’t do it.”

Sharon smiled at me, and at that sight, I scratched my head and walked towards the dormitory, saying I would go first.

I woke up on a familiar morning and walked to the restaurant to eat breakfast. Ceresria carefully sat down in front of me, and I looked at her and started eating again.

“The exam is coming soon, are you worried?”

“You can do well as you have learned so far, because your seniors also said the same thing.”

“Well, Astan didn’t neglect the lecture.”

“Ceresria, are you confident?”

“If you don’t have confidence, wouldn’t that be a funny story?”

“… … It’s similar to what I expected, so I have nothing to say.”

Celestria smiled at my words, and as the fairies approached her and served her a light meal, Celestria slowly ate her breakfast and continued talking.

“Where did Sharon go? It seems like people who come to eat breakfast early are a bit late today.”

“You said you went to help senior Chloe last night, so maybe you should sleep until morning.”

“Sharen is also amazing. Even though she is young, she is said to be a senior Chloe’s assistant. Other people say they are very envious of Sharon. Being an assistant to the famous Golden Master is an enviable position.”

Celestria spoke, put down the knife and fork she was holding, looked at me, and opened her mouth.

“Am I the only one without it?”

“What?”

“Sharen is being taught by senior Chloe, and Astan is being taught by senior Erica, but I have no one to teach me.”

“… … Is there anyone who can teach Ceresria?”

She was the princess of a country and was considered the strongest first-year student. What kind of fifth-year senior would teach Ceresria? It was a story that anyone would reject.

“No matter how hard I struggle, I can’t beat the 5th graders.”

“Isn’t that what it sounds like?”

I understand why a person who knows best how burdensome it is to teach the princess of a country should go around talking about such things, and more than anything, what a magician who grows up well without such teachings thinks like that. didn’t have it

“Can you see me having strange thoughts?”

“I didn’t think much about it.”

As we were having that conversation, Sharon walked into the restaurant, sat down next to us, and opened her mouth.

“Good morning.”

“What happened today that made you late?”

“I finished my research late, but Leonard came along midway and told me to finish it quickly, so I finished it quickly. If he hadn’t come, I would have been researching until this morning.”

“Isn’t this abuse?”

“Because it’s fun, my senior and I also found it fun to do this.”

“Sharen is also a strange person.”

“When wasn’t it.”

Sharon scratched her cheek and smiled sheepishly at what Celestria and I said, and the fairies began serving Sharon’s meal. I ate breakfast first and as I was waiting for Sharon to eat, she spoke while eating mashed potatoes.

“Senior Chloe said that making such a difficult medicine wouldn’t be on this alchemy test, but if that wasn’t the case, she said she could change the color of rusagrass.”

“Changing rusa grass is an easy task, I have already done it.”

“So you’re telling me not to worry too much, but I don’t know the details either. I wonder if it’s because he felt like a 5th grader, or because his senior has already taken that test.”

“I don’t think the alchemy professor will make me re-create the medicine I already made or repeat the research I did.”

“That’s true, but wouldn’t everyone get good grades then?”

Of course, that was correct. Since you are taking a test with the correct answers already given, that may be correct since it is a test, but… … It seemed like the Academy wouldn’t do that.

I felt like I had to find something new, or something different. Because it wasn’t a place where everyone gave the same evaluation.

The same was true for the dueling class assignment, which was to think of an efficient way to subdue the opponent with one’s own magic and demonstrate it.

“The summoning magic test has already been announced.”

“The test is not as difficult as you might think, since it requires you to successfully attack in conjunction with a summoned animal.”

Naturally, I nodded at those words. I didn’t know how difficult the academy’s exams would be, but so far nothing too big. Of course, I couldn’t know the details, whether it was us who felt this way or not.

The thing I’m most worried about is… … Wouldn’t it be a dungeon breakthrough? If there really was a situation where a dungeon had to be broken through, if that was the exam for the dueling class.

I may break through on my own, but… … For some reason, I felt like an uneasy feeling was covering my body.

“I feel like I am gradually becoming a wizard, Astan.”

As I was putting the cleaned dishes in the cupboard at Aunt Toa’s words, Aunt Toa smiled at me and drank the wine in her glass, and I asked a question at the sight.

“Has anything changed?”

“When I first came here, I didn’t know how to do things, so I went around asking questions here and there, but now I can do it on my own comfortably and even use magic along the way. I’m definitely envious of magic. At a famous restaurant, it’s said that wizards use magic to do magic. I wonder if you’ll become like that soon too.”

“I don’t know how to use fire magic, so it won’t be difficult.”

Cooking with magic was something I was more familiar with than I thought, having already seen fairies, but I think the important thing was fire. There is magic that creates light light in general magic, but magic that literally creates fire was an area that was impossible except for those who used flame magic.

If I had the chance someday, I wanted to learn other types of magic, but I didn’t know whether I would have that talent or not.

If senior Isabel returns to the academy, wouldn’t it be a good idea to ask her? From what I remember, I heard that Isabel-senpai can handle all types of magic.

As I was working with that thought in mind, a question suddenly arose.

When will seniors Erica and Isabel return to the academy?