episode_0136

“Lady Adele.”

“… … Diane?”

At the sound of a voice calling her to sleep, Adele’s eyes widened and she looked up at Diane.

In fact, Diane didn’t look any different from usual on the outside. Considering how she looked at our house yesterday, it was even better. It meant that she had regained her energy overnight.

It seems that the letter Amelia sent was quite effective.

As always, Amelia, who was sitting between Adele and me, was looking up at Diane with interest.

For reference, the desks in the classroom were in the form of long desks arranged in a terraced manner, which is commonly described in subculture as a ‘university lecture room’. In fact, unless it was a good university, it was often not in that shape, but, well, this place was amazing. Isn’t it the highest classroom in the Magic Tower?

Since it was a place that used up the entire top floor of the magic tower, there may have been too much space left to simply use it as the main laboratory of the magic tower.

Anyway, the three of us—Diane always sat a little further away from us—always kept our heads straight even in those situations, because it was easy to get out.

The most popular seats were the front seats. If it was a general lecture, the back seats would naturally be more popular, but the person lecturing here was none other than Mtapju. He was a young and handsome man befitting the name Mtapju. Of course, he was very popular with students, so Mtapju The front row seats, where you can see the main face more clearly, were popular.

Thanks to this, we were able to easily occupy the spacious seats in the back, and since it was terraced anyway, the view was not blocked.

Adele, Amelia, and I were sitting in the back seats as usual. It wasn’t that there weren’t other nobles in the same row as us, but at least the area ‘near us’ was mostly empty.

Among them, Diane came up next to Adele, who was sitting in the last seat, and called out to her.

That too, not as ‘Daughter Carlins’, but as a name.

That was the part of Diane that we were looking at that seemed most different from usual.

Diane was covering her mouth with a fan as usual, and was looking at Adele with her head held high and her eyes lowered.

“… … What’s going on?”

Maybe it was because it felt like they were waiting for Adele’s answer.

Adele asked that question even though she was a little wary.

All of a sudden, the eyes of the children sitting in the classroom were focused in this direction. From the outside, it looked like an imminent situation. Diane was acting as if she was looking down on Adele, and Adele was looking up at her, not giving up at all. .

but.

“There are no seats, so could you please move to the side?”

“… … .”

Adele’s mouth dropped open at those words.

The classroom was also frozen.

… … Nobles place great importance on socializing. Even at a banquet or city hall, it was natural to dance with strangers, and it was also not a strange sight to meet strangers and clink glasses while greeting them.

In this classroom, where there is a ‘student’ atmosphere, it is not strange for students to naturally sit next to each other as if they were classmates in high school.

However, the person doing that now was Diane, and the person who heard it was Adele.

Although they can talk, laugh, and chat with strangers, they usually do not get along that well with people they are fighting over for power or with people who have fought swords with each other. Nobles are also people.

No, well, I’m not saying that Adele and Diane are in that kind of relationship.

Even though I know that Amelia and I have become quite close, the other kids in this classroom don’t know.

“There are probably many other seats available.”

Adele answered calmly.

“There are many other seats.”

Diane also answered without hesitation.

“… … .”

And the two looked at each other and fell silent again.

Cook, cook.

Amelia nudged my side with her elbow, and I silently moved my butt to the side. Then, Amelia also moved to the side to make room for one person to sit.

“So, what you’re saying is that you want to sit next to me, not necessarily somewhere else, right?”

Adele asked, still looking up at Diane as if she didn’t even notice that we had moved.

“To put it bluntly,”

Diane answered calmly.

“I just want to sit here, not next to you.”

“So, leaving a lot of empty seats behind?”

“This is getting longer. Do you want me to get out of the way?”

Diane tilted her head in disgust. Adele seemed unsure whether this was a new kind of bullying.

“… … .”

And in the end, he tilted his head as if it was strange, but moved towards the seat that Adele had vacated.

“Hehe.”

Diane laughed briefly and sat down in the seat where Adele had been sitting a moment ago.

Even after sitting down like that, Diane did not remove the fan from in front of her mouth for a while.

*

“This is the end of today’s class.”

Magic Tower Lord of Light said that and ended the class.

And as usual, I couldn’t understand a single word of today’s class. In fact, it was natural because I didn’t even make an effort to understand. Just like in high school math class, if you don’t make the slightest effort to understand, you can’t realize the principles of magic. He seems to be an academic.

Of course, even if I realized that principle, it doesn’t mean much to me, because it wasn’t something I could apply in the first place.

“I didn’t sleep today.”

Amelia looked proud when she said that.

That’s right. I didn’t doze off today. Even though I was extremely bored during class and couldn’t understand anything!

“No, it wasn’t much of a compliment.”

Amelia smiled bitterly at my reaction, but she didn’t look like she was blaming me.

To begin with, in this world, magic is not a culture that must be known. Of course, a noble with a talent for magic would naturally want to learn magic, but that was a matter of practicality.

Rather, what nobles need to know is the political aspect of the country.

Of course, I don’t know much about that either.

Anyway, the class ended like that and I was about to get up from my seat in a good mood, but the Master of Magic suddenly clapped his hands as if he had forgotten something.

The noble children who were chattering and getting up from their seats stopped moving at the sound of the clapping of their hands.

“There is one thing I didn’t mention. We have a camping schedule scheduled for some time later. Of course, I understand that some of you are nobles who are busy with construction work, and some of you may not like the idea of spending two nights outside. Detailed schedule We will inform you later, so please let us know if you would like to participate.”

Why was the Lord of the Magic Tower looking directly at me as he spoke like that?

… … I guess so.

It is a fairly famous story that I released the wolves into the forest. When I first released them, there was some minor friction with the royal guards and hunters.

At least by convincing them that northern wolves do not breed in such warm places and that they do not destroy the ecosystem through unnecessary hunting – in fact, by pressing them down with the power of Gratton Mount – I was able to suppress them.

It seemed that the Lord of the Tower wanted to check my abilities during the camping trip.

Well, it was an event that occurred in the original work and in the novel I read.

It’s an event that I don’t understand why it exists as it’s not a typical academy event, but if you roughly think of it as a retreat or school trip atmosphere, there’s nothing you can’t understand.

And I heard wizards get materials from the forest.

“… … .”

Diane was looking down at the magic tower in silence.

It looks like he has some ideas.

If Diane’s feelings are anything like what Amelia guessed last night, she must be thinking this is her chance to get closer to Adele.

good.

If that’s the case, should I try to lend a little strength too?

“It’s camping.”

But surprisingly, there was one more person who mumbled something like that, as if he was a little amused.

“Sounds fun.”

It was none other than Amelia next to me.

“Sure.”

really.

My heart is pounding.

We hugged each other and slept every day in the mansion, but what would it be like in the tent?

… … No, but how many people can the tent fit?

*

“Miss, are you here?”

“Yes. I came with Adele and Diane today as well. It’s okay, right?”

“The owner of this mansion is a young lady, so there is no big problem… … ”

The maid who came out to meet us rolled her eyes as if she was a little troubled.

“What’s going on?”

When Amelia asked about the unusual appearance, the maid spoke cautiously.

“El Siaga’s guest is here. Don’t you have an appointment today?”

“Ah.”

right.

Isabelle.

… … No, wait a minute.

“Uh, I don’t think I made a separate promise.”

I said, ‘I’ll come prepared next time,’ but I never said when I would come.

Did you really think that since there was no mention of ‘when’, it was no different from saying that you would come ‘always’?