Chapter 363
The skeleton principal’s personality doesn’t seem like the professors will let him take a break from lectures.
‘what? It’s not like you’re taking the students out with… um?’
Lee Han, who was immersed in his thoughts, felt an unknown sense of unease.
It was an uneasiness that I didn’t know why I felt it myself.
“Are you there?”
“!”
Friends on the second floor looked through the windows at the front door.
I saw the face of a familiar friend. It was Rowena, a follower of the princess.
“Suspicious. Aren’t the professors hiding behind you?”
“It can’t be… can it be?”
“Hold your hands and ask them to come in slowly. So that I can close the door right away.”
Lee Han was heartbroken at the sight of his friends having vicious conversations.
Einrogard’s professors were ruining their friends.
“Raise both hands and come in slowly!”
Of course, that was it, and Lee Han accepted the advice of his friends.
Really, there could be professors hiding behind it.
“yes?! Mr. Wodanaz. Why…”
“Don’t talk nonsense! My staff is pointed at you!”
Gainando groaned.
It was the momentum to throw a curse at any moment.
Rowena was confused, wondering what the hell she had done wrong.
“What the hell am I doing wrong…”
“I’ll go and check it out.”
Ratford hurried down and pokes his head cautiously out the front door.
“No Professor!”
“???”
“ah. sorry. I’m afraid the professors are hiding behind…”
Ratford’s sincere explanation made Rowena confused whether he was joking or not.
“Are you kidding?”
“no. Serious.”
“……”
* * *
Rowena came to visit Duke Ikaldoren’s mansion together.
“To me?”
Lee Han was puzzled.
He knew that the princess had received a riddle (a bribe wrapped in magic) from the Duke of Ikhaldoren.
Didn’t they work together at the wand workshop to solve the mystery?
If I remember correctly, it was well made, but why visit together?
“yes. Didn’t Wardanaz help you solve it? Of course, along with the honor…”
“I don’t mind sharing the reward.”
Rowena showed an awkward expression at Lee Han’s words. It was a joke that was hard to react to.
“Because I’m bad at jokes…”
“It wasn’t a joke, but I understood why they came anyway. But if there’s a problem, it won’t fire at me, right?”
If the answer to the riddle was wrong, but it went to ‘Wodanaz gave me advice, but it’s wrong!’, it became annoying.
Originally, if the results of group assignments are bad, isn’t it the leader with good grades who takes the biggest responsibility?
“How could that be!”
Rowena was shocked and denied it.
Adenart was never one to place the blame on his followers.
“Lee Han. Isn’t it suspicious because you strongly deny it?”
“I may swear on my honor as a knight!”
“Isn’t it more suspicious since you went that far?”
It was Gainando’s ability to be shameless without hesitation in catching fault.
Rowena was indignant and unfair, and glared at Gainando. I couldn’t figure out what kind of evil mind he was interfering with the princess’s work.
‘He’s really too much!’
‘If there was no one, I would have been hit by one.’
“Calm down. It’s not that difficult to visit Duke Ikhaldoren’s mansion.”
In fact, all I had to do was go get something to eat and drink, and say hello to the duke saying, ‘The mansion is so pretty, haha’.
Rowena’s face brightened as Lee Han seemed to accept it.
“It’s not the first time I’ve been there.”
“Have you ever been there?”
Rowena tilted her head.
During vacation, the Wodanaz family boy was so busy that he couldn’t have enough bodies even if he had a few more.
Have you visited the duke’s mansion before?
‘I don’t think they were close friends?’
“This is not a city mansion…”
Lee Han slightly changed the subject.
There was nothing good about having to say that I visited Einrogard without permission during the semester with Professor Voladi.
If it goes into the skull headmaster’s ears later, won’t the road be blocked?
“There is no need for any preparation, right? Is it just a visit?”
“yes! The Duke will be waiting for you with a souvenir prepared too!”
“That’s right… wait a moment?”
Lee Han was surprised.
“What gift?”
“ah. His Highness the Duke gave gifts to the students whenever they visited the mansion, saying that they were pillars responsible for the future of the empire…” “
So what kind of gifts are those?”
Rowena, slightly overwhelmed by Lee Han’s spirit, stuttered.
“I gave you this kind of accessory the other day… Is there a problem?”
When Rowena took out a small medallion made of solid gold, Lee Han’s eyes shook.
The number of followers of the princess would be quite large, but to think that such students sprayed something like that every time they came.
‘surprising!’
His financial power was amazing, and it was surprising that he didn’t give any reward when he defeated the poisonous contaminant that attacked the duke the other day.
In fact, most of them were the latter. Lee Han still had a grudge against the duke.
‘To take care of only the royal family like that, it must be a despicable person who surrenders to power.’
“You are kind.”
However, apart from such resentment, if you sprinkled a gift like that, you couldn’t not accept it.
“Can I bring other friends too?”
At Lee Han’s question, Rowena naturally nodded as if she had waited.
“His Highness said that anyone here is welcome.”
Duke Ikhaldoren welcomed all the students of Einrogard, even if they did not go down to the evil prince or the Meikin family.
In fact, when I invited the princess, I told her to invite any friends she wanted.
“Is there any particular limit on the number of people?”
“yes. He said that the more he brought, the happier he was.”
“Right.”
Lee Han nodded and started writing a letter using a quill.
Dear Salko of House Tutanta,
I know you don’t like to be associated with aristocratic families, but even taking that into consideration, I am contacting you because I have a really good job. Surprisingly, you can earn a gold coin or two just by eating… * *
*
The first-year students of Einrogard gathered in the city vacant lot were surprised.
“Isn’t today the first day of school?”
“I thought it was Ein Rogard for a moment.”
That’s how many top students were gathered together.
Even the Priest students of the Phoenix Tower were invited.
“I hope everyone can enjoy a hearty meal at the duke’s mansion.”
“…Wait a minute. Mr. Wodanaz. By any chance, the reason you invited us today isn’t for a meal, is it?”
“Of course not.”
The priests were relieved by Lee Han’s words.
Lee Han sent a letter saying, ‘As a student of Einrogard, there is a place where I have to participate and shine’, but I was a bit taken aback when I brought up the topic of eating.
After all, there was no way he would call the priests and take them to the duke’s mansion to get them to eat.
‘Of course there must be another reason.’
It was clear that there was a reason for priests to be present in the banquet hall of the mansion. The Wodanaz boy didn’t do anything stupid.
“By the way, why aren’t there any White Tiger Tower guys?”
“I sent an invitation, but everyone said it was impossible because there was a schedule. It’s good to request an adventurer, but I wonder if you’re too engrossed in it.”
“…?”
“???”
Nilia and Ratford looked at Lee Han like a thief.
What is the person who is most passionate about adventurer requests than anyone else?
“I never thought you would collect this much.”
Rowena blinked in surprise.
Once again, I felt Lee Han’s wide personal connections.
Although Adenart had followers, he had limitations.
Even when he was immediately invited to ‘bring Her Highness’s friend’, the followers reacted in the same way, ‘Can we dare to call ourselves friends?’
The followers who were seriously thinking about it eventually said, ‘I think it would be better for the princess to invite her friends separately instead of us,’ but Adenart said that she would take Rowena as a friend instead of inviting her friends, perhaps not wanting to disappoint the followers.
Everyone was moved, but Rowena was worried that Adenart had no friends.
If the person she serves as a knight has no friends, forcing her to make friends is her loyalty, so Rowena has had a lot of trouble with this lately.
“Mrs. Wardanaz. How the hell do you make friends?”
“Chin… friend?”
Lee Han hesitated.
Of course, I was close with some of the students, but all the other students in the tower were a bit…
‘Can we call them friends?’
“I’m not sure if I can call you a friend.”
‘Until he is humble.’
Rowena admired Lee Han’s generosity. Indeed, he seemed like a person with a wide network of connections.
If he had been a mean prince, he would have boasted, ‘Because I’m good at it’.
“Then let me change the question. How can I call people like that?”
“Uh… um… that’s… I don’t think it’s true.”
“Sincerity…!”
Rowena shuddered at the standard yet difficult answer.
“Would it work if I sincerely mixed swords and then sincerely proposed to recruit her as a friend of Her Highness?”
“I’m not an expert on friends, but I don’t think that will work.”
* * *
Duke Ikhaldoren regretted his decision to blindly invite Einrogard students.
‘It must have been a mistake to call dirty, vulgar and stupid knights.’
The duke did not like the original knights.
Even if they were nobles of the same empire, the rough appearance of the knights’ families made them feel closer to barbarians than nobles.
I invited him because I thought it would be okay if he was a student enough to enter Ein Lorgard, but he did the same thing.
“Drink! Drink! Drink!”
“This cup is for His Highness the Duke, who gave us today’s banquet!”
“This cup is for the monster we hunted!”
“This one… I don’t know! I will just drink!”
Clink!
The drunken and excited White Tiger Tower students threw their glasses on the floor and bowls, went out into the hallway of the banquet hall, headed for the kitchen, brought their own kegs and drank them.
The White Tiger Tower students living in the knights quarters had to eat only rough and hard food instead of rich and rich meals.
Of course, compared to Ein Rogard, the food was edible, but compared to the sumptuous banquet at this banquet hall, the food in the inn was rubbish.
Smack!
“This bastard?!”
“Who threw the pie?!”
“I throw too!! me too!!”
Duke Ikhaldoren, who was sitting in the seat of honor, maintained a calm expression. Of course, inside I was swearing.
‘There’s no way these idiots have any information to dig up.’
“Long live the Duke! Long live His Highness the Duke!”
“Your Highness the Duke! Thanks for inviting me!”
“ha ha ha. Everyone is eating and drinking happily, so I’m happy…”
A cake that someone accidentally threw in the face of Duke Ikhaldoren flew.
The escort immediately hit and sent it flying, but the duke’s eyebrows could not be helped.
‘…I must be crazy.’
If everyone is crazy, only normal people will suffer.
Students like Giselle from the Moradi family and Durgyu from the Choi family put down their forks and watched the Duke.
No matter how much he smiled, he couldn’t help but notice that he was giving a shit in the banquet hall.
“Mo… Moradi. Are you okay?”
“Are you okay? What do you use your eyeballs for? Why don’t you sell it along with the head?”
“Don’t do that to me! Shouldn’t it dry up first!”
Cakes flew to the Duke, but these crazy students were drunk and messing around.
However, if the two of them get up and look serious, the atmosphere will become chilly.
Likewise, it was like spitting in the face of the white tiger tower. In the
meantime,
the door to the banquet hall opened.
A student at the White Tiger Tower, who was too absorbed in not noticing that the door was open, accidentally threw a roasted turkey with sauce toward the door.
“?”
Lee Han nodded and avoided it. Gainando, who was behind him, screamed and fell.
“Are they crazy?”
“What is this…?”
While the students outside the door were stunned and whispering, Lee Han strode away.
Then, he struck the stomach of the nearest White Tiger Tower student with his cane.
