Chapter 364
“Queueek.”
The student at the White Tiger Tower, who was properly surprised, collapsed as it were.
Another student next to him exclaimed in surprise.
“Wardanaz!!!”
“okay.”
“What… what are you doing! Why are you attacking us! Are you crazy!!”
“You guys threw the turkey at me first.”
“No play! It’s a joke!”
“It was a joke.”
“okay!”
“i get it.”
Lee Han swung his staff and chanted a spell.
Then, in the keg, the liquor gushed out and formed into a sphere.
The face of the white tiger tower student who saw it turned white. Even though I was drunk, I felt like I was getting drunk.
Wordanaz’ water elemental magic that all students of the White Tiger Tower know about!
“Everyone bleeds… kuk!”
“What are you avoiding, you crazy people?”
“Wardanaz is here! Wodanaz is here Hey! hey!! Stop drinking! Wodanaz is here!”
The White Tiger Tower students sitting on the hallway of the banquet hall realized the change and screamed, but the banquet hall was too noisy to hear it.
The students of the White Tiger Tower, who were excitedly throwing food at each other using the vast banquet hall, discovered Lee Han belatedly.
“What… kuck!”
“This… geuh!”
“Why the hell… kek!”
“Help Wardanaz!”
Salko, who came to his senses belatedly, shouted ferociously.
The Black Turtle Tower students jumped in and attacked the White Tiger Tower students.
No matter how good the White Tiger Tower students were in melee combat, their hands and feet were not aligned in such a drunken state.
“B… cowardly bastards…! When we’re drunk and off guard… hiccup!”
“……”
Giselle got up from her seat and moved to the Duke’s side.
I didn’t want to get caught up in that pathetic mess.
* * *
“Sorry. Duke’s Highness. Everyone seems to have been joking around a bit.”
After putting aside the White Tiger Tower students, Lee Han apologized.
In fact, it wasn’t until the fight started that I realized that Duke Ikhaldoren was sitting in the high chair.
The white tigers were playing so freely that they never thought that the duke would be at the banquet hall as well.
‘Are they really crazy?’
To play while throwing drinks and food while the Duke is in front of them.
It was the guts that surpassed Kainan Island.
Anyway, as long as there was a duke, it was polite to apologize for having such a scuffle in front of him. Lee Han lowered his head.
“No. It was fun to feel the boiling blood of young talents.”
Duke Ikhaldoren’s face looked really happy.
Seeing this, Lee Han thought to himself.
‘Your taste is unique.’
I never thought the White Tiger Tower students would love to make a mess by throwing pies and cakes at each other.
If I went to see the pigsty, I might get a standing ovation.
‘It’s really cool inside.’
The Duke of Ikhaldoren looked at Lee Han very gladly.
He was always looking for talent, but what he showed today was very impressive.
How nice it was to see him overpowering the grunting pigs at the banquet hall
…
The messy banquet hall was quickly cleaned up. Lee Han and his friends rushed in and took their seats in the banquet hall.
“……”
“Can I not wake you up?”
The White Tiger Tower students were lying in the corner of the banquet hall.
Both Lee Han and the Duke pretended not to see them and ignored them.
“I never thought that so many Einrogard students would come to visit… I’m really happy.”
“If you want, I will invite more next time to bring you.”
“!”
At Lee Han’s words, Duke Ikaldoren’s eyes flashed sharply.
That Wodanaz family boy was an ambitious man who had caught a deadly taint the other day and had explicitly hinted at his worth to the duke.
There was no way such an ambitious person would do something like this without thinking.
Why did you bring so many Einrogard students?
‘A personal connection…!’
Even if he was from Ein Lorgard, there weren’t that many people with whom he had a wide friendship.
Even the duke knew that Einrogard was separated by towers and that they did not mix.
But to think that Wodanaz, a member of the Blue Dragon Tower, brought students from other towers (even though he seemed to have a very bad relationship with the White Tiger Tower).
It was an amazing dragon technique that no one else could show.
As a great nobility, only those who have innate dignity can show it!
‘It’s only a freshman year… I’m afraid of the future.’
It was the duke who in their last meeting had elevated Lee Han from merely a talented freshman to a young aspiring man who deserved a seat across the table as an equal.
But today’s meeting is very faint, but to the point of being wary.
I was genuinely afraid of what the future would look like.
“Shall I bring something to drink?”
In response to the servant’s question, Lee Han said firmly.
“Please prepare some food.”
“…yes.”
It was the servant who cautiously asked if he would only bring drinks because of the students who had just made that mess.
I was just worried, but what can I do?
The servant withdrew to contact the kitchen.
‘Can you turn down the drink and prepare the meal? Are you trying to pass the time by not talking right away? Why?’
Duke Ikhaldoren was alone in deep thought.
Durgyu, who saw that, asked Giselle in an impatient voice.
“Are you mad?”
“Are you going to keep asking about things that you can know even if you only have eyes? If that’s the case, pay a silver coin and ask.”
Lee Han whispered to Salco.
“Eat as much as you can. Salco. It’s free.”
“Wardanaz. You really should have come to the Black Turtle Tower.”
* * *
Fortunately for the servants.
The three-tower students’ meals were much more peaceful and quiet.
The priests carefully sliced the steak with knives and politely thanked the duke for each bite.
Originally, Duke Ikaldoren was unmoved by such a greeting, but after seeing the shit from the students of the White Tiger Tower earlier, he couldn’t help but feel happy. The duke thought that after this banquet, he should send donations to each temple.
The meals of the students of the Black Turtle Tower were noisier than the priests, but they were at least amicable. Considering that I was a student, it was rather nice because I was fresh.
“How do you eat this?”
“Give me i will cut it I don’t cut it by force, I cut the joint here and then peel it.”
“Nilia…!”
“As expected, Nilia is different, but isn’t there something different?”
“There is dignity in behavior. It’s not like you can hang out with nobles for nothing.”
“……”
When Gainando tried to stick his nose into the plate, he pulled the back of his hair to stop it, and Lee Han picked up the plate and set it down in front of the princess.
Adenart, who wanted to eat terrine made with venison seasoning, but was only looking at it from a distance, slightly bowed his head in gratitude.
Seeing that, Rowena was surprised and asked.
“How do you know what you want?”
“You kept glancing at me.”
“Is that so? I thought you were thinking about a riddle today…”
‘I don’t think anyone is thinking while looking at the plate.’
Rowena pondered and asked.
“If you take care of me like this, wouldn’t we already be friends?”
“You call that a friend?”
“Looks like a servant.”
“childminder.”
“A butler would be better.”
As the other Blue Dragon Tower students calmly commented, Rowena sulked.
Lee Han, who roughly took care of all the people around him, turned his attention to the duke.
The duke was waiting with a smile on his face without changing his expression.
It was nice to see people like that.
It’s because he’s being stingy with people other than the imperial family.
“Your Highness the Duke. I have a question about the mystery.”
“Ask me anything.”
When Lee Han spoke to him, the duke was delighted as if a person who skipped a meal received food.
“I thought the riddle Your Highness gave me was a riddle that compared something. For example, the moon…”
“Very well matched!”
“……”
“……”
For a moment, Lee Han’s face froze.
The face of Yoner, who was next to him, also froze. The two quickly exchanged glances.
‘…was it a real analogy riddle?’
‘I thought it was a little strange…!’
Unaware of the hardened expressions on their faces, the duke continued.
If a riddle that was originally asked to be correct is not answered and a strange answer is given, the person who gave the question is also troubled.
The duke contemplated, ‘Should I make it more understandable?’ because of the princess’s followers who kept forcibly bringing answers to the riddle.
Although the possibility is slim, I was quite worried as it could be rumored that ‘Duke of Ikaldoren took notice and acknowledged that even a wrong riddle was correct’
.
“yes. That was the correct answer.”
“That’s right.”
Lee Han looked at the princess and her followers without realizing it.
It seemed that he had not yet heard the conversation between the duke and Lee Han because he was eating.
“Rowenna?”
“yes?”
“Put it under the cane you brought and never take it out.”
“yes? Why?”
“…Just don’t take it out.”
When Lee Han looked serious, Rowena nodded in surprise. Lee Han thought he should apologize later.
* * *
After the meal, the duke asked the students a question.
It was mainly a question about Ein Lorgard.
“How are you doing in Ein Lorgard?”
“Dogs… … are doing satisfactorily.”
“Jimm… …I’m fine too.”
Even the students who tried to tell the truth at first gave up when their tongues stopped due to swearing and chose an acceptable answer.
‘What does food have to do with keeping mysteries and knowledge!’
‘It’s like a fucking oath!’
“I heard that the teachings of mages are very harsh.”
“Hm… … I think it’s because of rumors from the past.”
“That’s right… originally, rumors like that tend to leave a strong impression…”
“…?”
The Duke was very confused.
I got information that life inside was quite difficult, but just like the last time and this time, why didn’t anything fit me like this?
The more I knew, the more I felt like I was falling into a labyrinth.
“Still, thanks to Wardanaz here… I was able to live a decent life.”
“you’re right. If it wasn’t for Lee Han of the Wodanaz family, it might have been a little more difficult…”
As Lee Han’s story came out, the duke listened with interest.
I already knew that it was highly popular among students, but I was able to get information from a different perspective by listening to it this way.
“He saved my life several times. Some crazy guys are attacking…”
“I was lucky.”
To Salko’s words, Lee Han replied as if it was nothing.
But at that moment, the Duke was shocked by a lightning strike.
It was intuitively certain.
‘no way!’
The ones the duke let into the school.
The crazy people the Black Turtle Tower student was talking about now had to be them.
There couldn’t be more people attacking students at a school the size of Ein Rogard.
‘…Does that make sense!?’
Duke Ikhaldoren was unshakable for a while, but this time he crossed the line.
I didn’t send the idiots, I sent those expensive “snakes of the maple tree” in.
It wasn’t even a rookie. They were good at dealing with wizards.
Even though it’s inside a magic school and there are professors, does it make sense that you can’t overpower a single freshman??
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it.
In the end, the duke lost patience and brought up the question.
“I wonder if that raid is…
”
“Let’s do it… It’s not a big deal.”
The other students finished saying no with a bitter expression. The Duke couldn’t help but be even more confused.
And the most confusing thing is…
‘Isn’t it too unfortunate to be a coincidence! To think that the person who stopped the raid approached this Duke of Ikhaldoren…’
The Duke suddenly felt suffocated.
It feels like you are a puppet playing in someone’s palm.
It was an intense feeling of pressure that he had never felt except when facing the emperor.
