Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 127

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127.

Opening ceremony.

While students were lined up by grade level, only the first-years stood with particularly unpleasant expressions.

The second-years standing next to the first-years looked puzzled at their appearance.

“Why are they like that?”

“I heard they got worked over from the very first day of school.”

“They’re acting like that just because they got worked a bit on opening ceremony day? And here they were being praised as the golden generation – turns out it’s nothing special.”

“I heard the vice principal personally worked them over.”

“What? The vice principal?”

The second-years who had been mocking right next to the first-years were shocked.

The vice principal.

A person shrouded in mystery even to the upperclassmen.

The second-years who heard that such a vice principal had personally instructed the first-years felt displeased.

“Are they giving only the first-years special treatment or what?”

“It’s discriminatory treatment. How can we bear to attend school feeling so wronged?”

During the vacation period, everywhere you went was buzzing with talk about Lumern’s first-years.

In the midst of this, the ones who became the comparison targets were none other than the second-years, who were one grade above.

In such a situation, hearing that the vice principal had instructed the first-years made it seem like only the underclassmen were receiving special treatment, causing complaints to burst forth among the second-years.

Meanwhile, Leo was changing into his grade representative uniform in the grade representative waiting room.

Since the other grade representatives hadn’t arrived yet, Leo was alone in the waiting room.

It was when he had finished changing and came out of the changing room.

“That’s why I don’t like Elena.”

“Isn’t Hark senior also from one of the Three Great Families? You could borrow your family’s power like Elena senior, couldn’t you?”

“Do you think I’d do something so embarrassing?”

Second-year Lil and fourth-year Hark entered the waiting room.

“Leo! Did you have a good vacation?”

Lil discovered Leo and smiled brightly.

“Yes.”

“Leo’s performance in the department competition was impressive! To be caught between outstanding seniors and an outstanding junior. I really have no luck.”

Watching Lil sigh deeply while saying “Ugh!”, Hark made an expression of disbelief.

“What are you talking about? The absolute, unshakeable first place of the second year.”

Ril Ruche, a grade representative who thought of herself as too ordinary.

However, Lil was a student whose position as grade representative had never been threatened even slightly since enrollment.

First place in written exams.

First place in practical exams.

First place in various combat evaluations and mission assessments.

100% success rate in Heroes’ World conquests.

She was an honor student setting phenomenal records.

Among the upperclassmen, there wasn’t a single student who maintained an unshakeable position at the top of their grade like Lil.

Ris had competed fiercely with Ulta, and both Hark and Elena had briefly given up their grade representative positions to other students.

Unlike such seniors, Lil was maintaining long-term dominance in the grade representative position.

She was literally an iron wall.

“You know the kids call you the monster girl, right?”

“Hark senior! Why are you saying such a strange nickname in front of Leo!”

When Lil made a tearful face, Hark giggled and ruffled Lil’s hair.

Lil, who gave her all in everything, was also a junior who received affection from the senior grade representatives.

That’s why even Hark, who didn’t show much interest in others, often teased Lil.

After laughing heartily at Lil, Hark covered his eyes with the eyepatch hanging around his neck and said.

“Anyway, I’m sleeping. Wake me up before the opening ceremony starts.”

Leaving those words, Hark immediately fell fast asleep.

“He really sleeps well.”

“He really does.”

When Leo expressed admiration, Lil sighed deeply.

Of course, Leo could see through that Hark wasn’t simply someone who slept at all hours because he was sleepy.

‘An aura trait of accumulation, that’s a rare trait.’

Accumulation trait.

Literally the ability to store up power during normal times and pour it out during battle.

‘Though he does seem to actually sleep a lot too.’

While Leo was muttering to himself, Lil spoke urgently with a reddened face.

“Leo! Monster girl is a nickname the seniors made up to tease me! I have a proper nickname called the Gale Spirit Mage…!”

It was when Lil, who wanted to be a dignified and cool senior to her junior, was trying hard to shake off the strange image attached to her.

“Isn’t Gale Spirit Mage too ordinary?”

Elena, who had entered the waiting room, smiled brightly and approached Lil while floating in the air.

And she embraced Lil’s head in her arms.

Lil was frozen stiff like a mouse before a snake.

Looking at such a junior, Elena chuckled and said.

“So monster girl is perfect.”

Looking at Elena who was teasing her, Lil made a tearful expression.

Elena, who had been stroking Lil as if she found her cute, looked at Leo and said.

“Leo. I heard about you during vacation. You participated in Ajonia’s entrance ceremony?”

At those words, Lil’s eyes widened as she looked at Leo.

“Our junior is truly amazing. Wherever you go, you cause extraordinary incidents. Should I call it the makings of a big shot?”

Watching Elena look at Leo with interest, Lil held her breath.

Elena had a self-centered personality.

While called the Queen of Lumern, she was also called a witch.

She was unpredictable and was also famous for being quite harsh in her evaluations of others.

‘More precisely, she ignores people she doesn’t acknowledge.’

As far as Lil remembered, the only student Elena had evaluated as a ‘big shot’ was Ris Jerdinger.

Her appearance with sparkling pink eyes and an eye-smile was so beautiful that even Lil, as a fellow woman, felt her heart flutter.

However, Leo only smiled calmly.

“I’m honored that you think well of me.”

Watching Leo smile calmly, Elena narrowed her eyes.

“Leo. You said you had a favor to ask of me?”

“Yes.”

“Right now, I might listen to that favor. Instead.”

Elena smiled brightly.

“Will you do me a favor too?”

‘What kind of favor is Leo trying to ask of Elena senior?’

It was when Lil was looking back and forth between Leo and Elena.

“Now you’re even hitting on a first-year?”

Hark, who had been lying down sleeping, lifted his eyepatch and was looking at Elena with cold eyes.

“Hark senior should mind his own business.”

Elena spoke to Hark with a smiling face.

Of course, her eyes weren’t smiling.

Hark Rigard.

He was one of the few students who could stand up to Elena, who was called the Queen of Lumern.

If the Jeron Family had long served as Lumern’s chairman, the Rigard Family was a family that had ruled Lumeria City.

A man who stood on equal footing with Elena as the heir of one of Lumern’s Three Great Families.

Lil frantically tried to stop the two seniors who were glaring at each other.

“S-seniors! You mustn’t fight!”

“Right. What are you doing in front of your juniors?”

A man appeared to back up Lil’s words.

It was none other than Student Council President Ris.

With Ris’s appearance, Elena returned to her usual relaxed expression, smiled at Leo once, then pushed Lil’s back.

“Lil, let’s get ready.”

“You can’t do weird things like before.”

“Watch what you’re doing.”

Lil let out a deep sigh and entered the changing room.

“Hark, let’s get ready too.”

“Yes, senior.”

Ris entered the changing room first.

Hark, who was following behind, looked at Leo and said.

“You said Leo Flobe, right?”

“Yes.”

“It would be good to be a little careful.”

“…?”

Hark made a troubled expression.

“She’s had a tendency to see people around her as toys since she was young.”

“I can tell she has a selfish personality.”

“Right. But the problem is when she finds a ‘special toy.'”

Hark sighed.

“She gets bored easily, so usually there’s no big trouble. But since she seems interested in you, it would be good to be careful for now.”

“Thank you for the advice.”

“Right. Anyway, I’m also looking forward to you.”

Hark grinned at Leo.

“Looking forward?”

“Yeah, excellent juniors are always welcome.”

Leaving those words, Hark entered the changing room.

Leo realized anew that various people were paying attention to him.

If the gazes toward Leo until the first semester were simply out of interest, now they had changed to recognition.

‘From now on, Tartaros will start paying attention to me in earnest.’

Leo, who was an all-class like Kail and was beginning to show unusual moves, would be a target of caution for Tartaros.

‘The traitor in Lumern might even directly harm me.’

Leo took a deep breath.

‘I need to stay sharp from now on.’

***

After the opening ceremony ended, the first-years immediately moved to attend classes.

Usually schools rest on opening day, but Lumern started classes right away without such things.

The first class was none other than Hero Studies.

The first-years gathered by class in the large lecture hall after a long time all wore tired expressions.

It was the aftereffects of being hit by the curse ‘Nightmare.’

That’s when it happened.

“Everyone! It’s been so long! Did you have a good vacation… Ack!”

Artion, who was entering the large lecture hall with a bright smile, tripped and fell.

It was the same clumsy appearance as in the first year.

Of course, the first-years who remembered Artion’s terror well didn’t think of laughing and tensed up.

Artion, who stood in front of the large lecture hall while groaning, smiled brightly.

“Did you rest well during vacation? I missed meeting you all during the vacation period and counted down the days until the opening day!”

At those words, several students made touched expressions.

Certainly Artion was a scary professor.

But her attitude toward students was sincere.

So apart from being scary, she was a very popular professor.

“Oh? You all feel the same way.”

Artion suddenly started talking to herself.

She seemed to be conversing with the spirits she had contracted with.

“The spirits I contracted with also wanted to meet you all!”

“Really?”

“As expected, the spirits only talk roughly but they care for us!”

The culprits that made Artion scary.

When they heard that the spirits wanted to meet them, the students got excited.

They had grown fond through being hit.

“Yes! They said there must be students who did their Hero Studies homework carelessly, and they’ve been counting down the days to punish those students!”

Looking at Artion smiling innocently, the students’ faces hardened.

Artion, who had been relaying the spirits’ words without much thought, also panicked and soon went to a corner to scold the spirits.

“Everyone! The children are getting scared! How can you say such things?”

Watching that scene, Cal said.

“I really worked hard on my Hero Studies homework.”

“Me too.”

Taide let out a deep sigh.

Artion, who had scolded the spirits, cleared her throat and stood in front of the platform again.

“Anyway, please submit your homework after class ends. Today we’ll have a lesson about issues that occurred in the Hero Studies academic world during vacation!”

Hearing Artion’s words, the students made puzzled expressions.

“New issues in the Hero Studies academic world?”

“What could it be? Was a new hero dungeon discovered?”

“Or maybe hero relics were excavated.”

Hero Studies issues were important events that could change the world’s situation.

“You’ll surely be surprised! You all know well that the prologue page of [Hero] Arron, which had never been cleared before, was conquered at Ajonia’s entrance ceremony this time.”

It was an incident that had already made front-page news, so all students knew about it.

Especially the first-years couldn’t help but be more concerned since a student from another Hero Academy of their same generation had already conquered a great hero’s page.

However, nothing had been announced about the content and rewards of the Heroes’ World.

While the students made tense expressions.

Artion said.

“And a certain name was mentioned by this conqueror.”

Artion, holding chalk, began writing something on the blackboard.

Tap- tak- tak-

While only the sound of writing something on the blackboard echoed throughout the large lecture hall.

Students who saw the name written on the blackboard began murmuring.

Leo also recalled what had happened in the Heroes’ World.

‘Come to think of it, Arga had heard my name from Agon.’

The name written on the blackboard was a name all too familiar to Leo.

[The Surviving Hero Kail]

Artion, who had put down the chalk, turned around and said.

“Though we don’t know if he’s the same person as the Hero of Beginning… the name ‘Kail’ has been officially mentioned for the first time in a great hero’s world.”

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