Episode 658
“I heard that the Valdrogard students are here?”
Just then, Alcicle entered the parlor building, munching on sardines.
“Went.”
“already?”
Alcicle was puzzled.
It was quite strange to go back without meeting even though he knew that the Pengerin Family Alcicle was there.
“That’s right. I also left the reagent pouch.”
“I’ll have to bring it.”
Unbeknownst to him, Alcicle saved the lives of two Valdrogard students.
It was such a good deed that two anonymous families would later provide huge research support to Alcicle.
“Are you sure it didn’t bother you guys?”
“They said they would show us magic, so we saw some magic and we showed them in return.”
“Oops…”
Alcicle realized his mistake at the words of Einrogard students.
“Then, of course, I’d be upset.”
“yes? What kind of magic did you show me?”
Lee Han was dumbfounded, but his friends slightly sympathized.
Among the freshmen of last year, there was a friend of the Wodanaz family who had been destroying the self-esteem of students who thought, ‘Maybe I’m talented enough?’ from the beginning of the semester.
“The Valdrogard kids aren’t very good at magic. Because there are a lot of guys who do it as a hobby.”
“Isn’t Baldrogard the best pair of carriages, like Einrogard, among the magic schools of the Empire?”
Siana tilted her head.
Apparently, I didn’t understand Alcicle’s words.
The guys who came earlier did the same, and among the rumors you hear from time to time, have you ever heard a story like ‘Valdrogard is the twin of the leading Imperial Magic School along with Einrogard!’?
“Is that a rumor spread by the Valdrogard students?”
“……”
“……”
Lee Han and his friends were shocked.
Rumors from the Empire were truly unbelievable.
“In the first place, all the other magic schools say that they are the best pair of wagons, just like Ein Rogard. Among the students of Valdrogard, there are many high-ranking students, so it spreads especially well.”
“No, these mean bastards!”
Gainando jumped up and down.
Not doing magic and spreading fame with such a mean trick!
“Can I do that?”
“It doesn’t work. It’s an insult to you guys. Gonadaltes-sama also hates it.”
“I’m sure the principal doesn’t like it.”
“huh. The other day, a Calalogard graduate got drunk in front of Gonadaltes and talked about twins and was buried alive under the grave. You guys, too, be careful with your words in front of Lord Gonadaltes.”
“……”
The students pretended not to hear the story that was much more radical than expected.
Lee Han was curious about Baldrogard and asked.
“By the way, Mr. Alcicle. No matter what, it’s a magic school, so can you pass the exam by doing it as a hobby?”
“test?”
Arcicle flapped its wings and wondered.
I couldn’t understand what Lee Han was talking about.
“What test?”
“The test within Valdrogard.”
“ah. Waldrogard doesn’t take the test.”
The shocking words made the surroundings quiet and the air chilled.
Alcicle didn’t know it, but all the students were wide-eyed in astonishment.
“Because it’s an internal school rule that it’s not right to evaluate dignified aristocrats arbitrarily.”
“Mmm… crazy bastards!”
“Siana-sama…”
“I’m sorry.”
“How could that be? how?”
“Send a letter to His Majesty the Emperor! You motherfuckers!”
“Let’s go and set fire to it!”
“…Is that something to be angry about?”
Alcicle was taken aback by the more intense reaction than he had expected.
What does Baldrogard’s failure to take the exam have to do with Einrogard?
However, the anger of the students did not subside. Gainando stomped his feet and tossed the magic book upwards, but was hit by Lee Han.
Lee Han stopped his friends and asked again.
“By the way, among the students there, there are students who say that their skills can be counted on their hands, but if there is no exam, are they just judging themselves?”
“Uh… professors Valdrogard will tell you that if you ask them about their skills, they’re all on their hands.”
“……”
“Did you go to Val Valdrogard?”
Kainando murmured involuntarily.
Friends who discovered the traitor rebuked him with angry voices.
“Leehan! Guinando wants to go to Valdrogard!”
“You traitor! Somehow, I was suspicious from the time I invited you!”
“Oh no! I’m kidding! joke!”
Alcicle cleared his throat because he seemed to have only cursed at Valdrogard.
“I won’t deny that Valdrogard’s teachings are a little… loose.”
“A little?”
“You don’t understand the meaning a little…?”
At the angry reaction of the students, Alcicle closed his ears and pretended not to hear.
“But even in Baldrogard there are excellent mages. The lower grade students don’t know that they are lacking, but as time passes, there are guys who notice that they are lacking.”
After advancing in the grade and realizing that their magical skills weren’t that great, the Valdrogard students split in two.
One is the type of person who goes out to enjoy social activities while winning the spirit that ‘what is important is not magic, but noble lineage’.
The other is the type of person who devotes himself to the study of magic even belatedly.
And usually far less of the latter.
‘I shouldn’t tell you this.’
Alcicle conscientiously tried to hide the fact that the latter was much smaller.
He seemed to have only said bad things about Valdrogard.
“Are you coming out?”
“Isn’t there about one student per grade?”
“……”
Alcicle turned the topic to the quick-witted Einrogard students.
“What magic did you show me? Didn’t you, Wodanaz, show you magic?”
“I didn’t show it. Other friends showed it to me.”
“phew. thank god.”
Alcicle let out a sigh of relief.
If Lee Han prepared and showed the magic himself, the shock of the Valdrogard students would have been beyond imagination.
“Then they will be fine too.”
“I will. We’ve talked about magic quite a bit, so it would be nice if you could go back and take an interest in magic.”
The friends exchanged glances with each other with complicated faces.
I think it would have been better if Lee Han showed it in person…
* * *
After the visit of the Valdrogard students (strangely, the Waldrogard students did not visit again after that), a few days later, Lee Han was called by Mrs. Kraha. received
“I called you this because I was wondering if you were doing well.”
“Thanks for your consideration, I am doing well. Mr Kraha.”
Mrs. Kraha thought for a moment, then folded the fan and asked carefully.
“By the way, are all the students visiting the mansion really friends of Kainando?”
“…yes.”
Lee Han was a little taken aback. I coughed to see if the other person felt it too.
“I was just a little curious.”
“That’s right.”
“I wonder what you plan to do today. If you haven’t decided where to go out, I’d like to recommend it.”
“ah. Today I have a place to go. I go around the shopping district with my juniors.”
Lee Han planned to take Eandurde around the shopping district with his friends.
Eandurde didn’t have a lot of luggage, so I wanted to take care of this and that.
As it is a very bustling commercial city, you will be able to buy many things that cannot be bought anywhere else.
“Junior? As far as I know, you won’t be able to meet Einrogard’s juniors right now…”
Mrs. Kraha said, looking beyond the veil and looking at her incomprehensible.
Lee Han briefly explained what had happened this winter vacation.
“…so I was taking care of it briefly until I went in.”
“!!!”
Mrs. Kraha looked at Lee Han with startled eyes.
How can a boy from the Wardanaz family take such good care of others!
No matter how I looked at it, I couldn’t believe it.
“Do you have a hobby of taking care of people who look pitiful, Mr. Wardanaj?”
“yes? It is not.”
“It’s the same with Gainan Island…”
“……”
Lee Han was dumbfounded by the other person’s words.
“That junior doesn’t have any property, so how are you going to pay for the goods?”
“I intend to pay first.”
The rich people of the empire would laugh at him, but by Lee Han’s standards, Lee Han himself had amassed quite a fortune.
It was thanks to hard work over the past year. No one has ever collected more than a hundred imperial gold coins.
As such, I was able to write this much to my juniors.
And…
“No.”
“yes?”
“The Kraha family will pay. I can’t do something like this for guests who come to the mansion.”
“Oh, that’s really good. I was going to bill the principal when I went back to school.”
“……”
Mrs. Kraha was startled once more.
The soon-to-be 2nd grade boy is going to hand over the bill to the skeleton principal.
Courage was also courageous, but it was impossible without friendship.
“…I don’t have a hobby of taking care of someone who looks really sorry, right?”
“No, why the hell is there such a misunderstanding?”
“No…then let’s do this. I’m going to present a gold coin to Mr. Wardanaj. Wardanaz-kun, please use it for your juniors. I used my own money, so you can file a bill with the principal.”
“oh my god! such a nice way! I will!”
“……”
Mrs. Kraha, who had planned to forcefully push if the other person refused out of politeness, was slightly taken aback by Lee Han’s immediate acceptance.
…do you have a bad relationship with the principal?
“But can you really do that? I’m afraid you’re wasting too many gold coins…”
“It’s okay. I have something to save.”
* * *
“My mother stopped giving me pocket money!”
Gainando walked among his friends in tears.
“What kind of accident did you have?”
“So you should have slept in a bit.”
“Cainan Island. You’re not from a family of knights, but waking up early…”
“Oh, it’s not like that! It’s all because of you guys!”
“???”
Friends were puzzled by the sudden false name.
what did we do??
Nilia hesitated.
“Are you upset because you ate too many cookies?”
“Since most of you don’t get pocket money even during vacations and earn by working on your own, they tell you to follow your friends and learn!”
“……”
Lee Han quietly put the pouch he had received from Mrs. Kraha into his bosom.
Looking at the family crest engraved on the pocket, Guinando might find out the truth.
“Cainan Island. I’ll buy you cotton candy over there, so relax.”
“Lee… Lee Han…!”
Gainando was moved by Lee Han’s words, but hesitated.
“If you eat that, you don’t have to study as much, do you?”
“no. You just buy it.”
“Lee Han…!”
Kainando let go of his tears.
Still, he had one true friend.
“What do you need from Eandurde?”
“Shall we buy some more clothes? All the clothes I received from the mansion are formal clothes that are too difficult to move… I think you will need comfortable clothes.”
When the topic of clothes came up, Eandurde struggled because she didn’t like the dress. Lee Han said while appeasing his junior.
“no. no. I’m not going to buy clothes. I’m going to buy a weapon.”
“…weapons are good…”
Lee Han winked. It was a signal to drag her to a clothing store before her junior realized it.
“I think you’ll need a small pot or mortar for alchemy, too.”
“Why?”
“You can come out during vacation and earn money with alchemy.”
‘Isn’t it possible not to learn alchemy…?’
Yoner thought to himself, but nodded.
In fact, Yonero had a lot of fun picking out alchemy tools for juniors.
“I also have something I would like to recommend. A tool for unlocking…”
“Hmm. Then I would like to recommend some useful armor.”
“Wizard card! I need a wizard card too!”
Except for Eandurde, everyone had fun shopping. Lee Han nodded with a happy expression.
“One by one…”
At the end of the road in front of Lee Han, he saw a familiar wizard.
It was Professor Voladi.
“…Today we go back to the mansion, shall we go around tomorrow?”
“???”
