Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 135

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135.

“Escape!”

Runia, who had come out of the city, stretched and shouted.

“I really thought I was going to die from suffocation!”

“Weren’t you not going to put on an act when it’s just students together?”

“An act? Your choice of words is strange?”

“Then what is it?”

Runia smiled gracefully.

“Consideration for not shattering people’s fantasies.”

Leo shook his head.

“By the way, you. You teased me earlier, didn’t you? Huh?”

Runia glared, but Leo asked without batting an eye.

“Do you have to act like a good honor student in front of upperclassmen?”

At that question, Runia made a sullen expression.

“The upperclassmen hardly know my personality.”

“Hardly?”

“Yeah. There are some upperclassmen who know. You know that upperclassman with glasses who was the leader of the group earlier? That person knows my personality.”

Runia scratched her head vigorously.

“So I came comfortably thinking only that upperclassman was coming. But that guy brought other 2nd and 3rd year upperclassmen too, so it was incredibly tiring.”

“If putting on an act is routine, it wouldn’t be tiring, would it?”

“If they just left me alone, it wouldn’t be tiring!”

Runia crossed her arms and scrunched up her face.

“But they keep making moves.”

“Moves?”

“Yeah. That 2nd year kept subtly asking me out on dates!”

“You could just refuse.”

“He kept beating around the bush so I couldn’t refuse outright! So annoying!”

Runia hysterically kicked the nearby trees with thud-! thud-!

It seemed she had accumulated quite a bit of stress on the way here.

“Plus, they’re all really steeped in elitism! Ugh! The way they talked was really irritating!”

Runia, the 1st year representative of Seirun, had been a famous girl since enrollment.

A prestigious family background and beautiful appearance.

And while her personality was like this, she thoroughly acted like an honor student on the surface, so she received the expectations and attention of Seirun’s teachers and upperclassmen.

There were some like Lauta who was a traitor before, but that was literally a minority.

Usually, upper-class students viewed upper-class underclassmen very favorably.

“What bothered you so much?”

“They kept saying things about you! That you were lucky to interpret the Progenitor’s magic! That your interpretation was wrong! If they think that, they should come up with a new interpretation themselves! If they can’t do that, they should just shut up and keep it in their own heads! Why come to me and badmouth you! Ugh! So annoying!”

Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!

Getting angry again at the thought, Runia kicked the tree.

Leo laughed at that fierce sight.

“You got angry on my behalf because they badmouthed me?”

Freeze-!

Runia’s kicking stopped.

Then she glanced at Leo and snorted.

“Hmph! I just didn’t like them putting down you, my rival, without knowing anything!”

“Right. Right.”

Leo nodded while watching Runia speak primly with her chin raised.

“How is Eiran doing?”

“Yeah! She’s completely adapted to the Academy now! No one ignores her anymore!”

Runia cheerfully laughed and talked with Leo about what had happened since the school trip.

Although they exchanged letters, talking in person was definitely the best.

‘I get along surprisingly well with this guy.’

While talking with Leo, Runia thought to herself.

Though they were different races, she felt strangely familiar with Leo.

In the midst of this, Leo asked casually.

“So, you came to investigate the Hero Dungeon, but is it okay to go do bandit subjugation with me?”

“Yeah. We’re just investigating anyway. It’s not like they’ll leave me behind and enter the Hero Dungeon… Gasp!”

Runia, who had been answering thoughtlessly, gasped and covered her mouth.

“Is that so?”

“Wh-what are you talking about? Hero Dungeon? Ahahaha.”

Watching Runia belatedly play dumb, Leo said.

“It’s not a big deal? Then I can contact Lumern right now, can’t I? To tell them there are Seirun students here.”

Leo took out the communication orb given for mission practice and waved it while asking.

Watching Leo like that, Runia rolled her eyes around and sighed deeply.

“Fine! Our vice-principal said there might be a Hero Dungeon in this region! Are you satisfied!”

The existence of the Hero Dungeon could be sufficiently predicted from the moment Seirun students appeared in this area anyway.

Judging that it couldn’t be hidden, Runia confessed honestly, and Leo nodded.

Watching Leo like that, Runia made a slightly sullen expression.

“Let’s depart.”

Leo didn’t ask any more about the Hero Dungeon and took out a map from his chest while speaking.

“The bandits seem to have made their hideout in the Eastern Ruins of the Garan Region.”

At those words, Runia nodded.

“Good. Then let’s go quickly and sweep them away.”

Crack-

Runia cracked her knuckles and smiled fiercely.

“Villains who harm innocent people, I absolutely can’t forgive them.”

As a hero candidate, Runia was fundamentally a girl with a strong sense of justice.

“Then.”

In front of such Runia, Leo knelt down showing his back.

“…? What?”

“Get on my back.”

“What? Why should I!”

When Runia asked with a slightly reddened face, Leo said calmly.

“We need to get to the bandits’ hideout quickly, don’t we.”

“I can fly there with magic!”

“Even so, me carrying you and running would be much faster, wouldn’t it?”

Even though she was tomboyish, as a young lady from a prestigious family, she hesitated when a boy her age told her to get on his back.

But soon she sighed and got on.

“If you have any weird thoughts, you’re dead?”

“What weird thoughts would I have?”

“You… No, let me stop talking. Sigh.”

Sighing deeply, Runia, who had gotten on Leo’s back, wrapped her arms around Leo’s neck.

Leo, who had gotten up, bent his knees.

And leaped at tremendous speed.

Feeling the tremendous headwind, Runia momentarily closed her eyes.

But soon she got used to the wind and opened her eyes to see them moving at incredible speed.

‘It is fast.’

Runia pouted her lips.

Then she rested her chin on Leo’s left shoulder and thought.

‘Come to think of it, did this guy grow taller?’

Feeling a strange sensation at the fact that the younger boy who had been similar in height to her had grown so much taller, Runia tightened her arms around Leo’s neck.

***

“So we plan to explore this surrounding area for ecological research for a while.”

“Yes! Yes! Please stay as long as you like! I’ll make sure you have no inconveniences during your stay!”

Hadin spoke in a polite voice.

Watching such Hadin, the Lord of Garan rubbed his hands together obsequiously.

A Seirun 2nd Year Female Student watching that scene from afar sneered.

“How servile. Well, that’s how all humans are.”

Elves were a race that took particular pride in their culture among all races.

Moreover, since the perception that Seirun students were chosen ones was widespread, they were basically arrogant.

Of course, not all students were like that.

But the advanced classes had many students with supremacist values as much as they were revered.

And all three students here were from the advanced classes of their year.

This dungeon exploration consisted of two 3rd years, two 2nd years, and one 1st year.

Hadin, the 3rd year leader, was active as a dungeon conqueror of Seirun, and all other students were dungeon conqueror candidates.

This mission practice was also a kind of test to assess their capabilities as dungeon explorers.

“By the way, Miss Runia neglecting her mission to go subjugate bandits. Even though she’s excellent, does she still have childish aspects?”

She asked while looking at her classmate and senior male student.

To that question, the Seirun 2nd year male student said.

“She must be overflowing with a sense of justice.”

He was a student who had shown blatant interest in Runia from the start of the mission practice.

“Still, she could have subjugated the bandits together with us, so why did she go with a Lumern student?”

When the Seirun 2nd year male student grumbled with an incomprehensible expression, the 3rd year male student said.

“I heard that Runia considers Leo Flobe her rival?”

The fact that Lumern and Seirun’s 1st years had joint classes for a brief time during the first semester was a famous story.

The fact that Herdium, the homeroom teacher of the advanced Class 1, had highly praised Lumern’s 1st years was also famous within Seirun.

Since Herdium was renowned as an elite teacher, Seirun students couldn’t easily dismiss his remarks.

“Well, looking at this Gigantes incident, they’re quite capable. But even so, I think our 1st years could have accomplished that too?”

The 2nd year female student said bluntly.

“That’s right, senior. There’s no way we Seirun students couldn’t accomplish what mere Lumern students did.”

He distorted his face and revealed blatant hostility, seemingly displeased that Leo had left alone with Runia.

“Anyway, isn’t it obvious that Seirun will win this year’s Seruleon too? The 2nd years from our generation were pathetic. And the 3rd years weren’t a match for you seniors either, right?”

At the 2nd year junior male student’s words, the Seirun 3rd year student’s face hardened.

“That’s not entirely true. There’s a monster among Lumern’s 3rd years.”

“A monster?”

“Are you talking about Elena Jeron?”

The 2nd years tilted their heads and asked, and the 3rd year nodded.

At their senior’s reaction, the Seirun 2nd years laughed.

“Even so, it’s just one person, right? The other Lumern 3rd years are pathetic, aren’t they?”

“That’s right. We’ll handle this year easily. The current Lumern 2nd years are really nothing special.”

In the 1st year competitions over the past three years, last year’s 1st years… that is, the current Lumern 2nd years, had been particularly severely defeated by Seirun’s 1st years.

“Still, last year’s Lumern 1st year representative had considerable skill. Don’t be complacent just because we won easily last year.”

“Ah, you mean that female student with the strange way of speaking, Lil? Even so, she was just decent among the other students.”

“Right. For such a kid to be the year representative. Lumern has really hit rock bottom.”

“Oh my. What’s wrong with our cute Lil?”

At the suddenly heard voice, the Seirun students flinched and turned their heads.

There stood a beautiful girl, smiling.

The Seirun 3rd year student’s face slightly hardened.

“Elena Jeron? Why are you here?!”

“Hello, Seirun students.”

Elena said while gently twirling the ends of her hair with her finger.

“You know, I like people who work hard.”

The Seirun students were flustered by the sudden statement.

“Our cute Lil is always a hardworking child. And she’s kind. Last year, she couldn’t show her true abilities because she was taking care of her other classmates. After that, she worked really hard, saying she would restore Lumern’s honor.”

Elena smiled sweetly while thinking of the only junior she cherished.

“I don’t care if you badmouth other schools where they can’t hear you, since that’s your freedom.”

Grin-

“But I happened to overhear that badmouthing, which made me feel bad. So I’ll give you a chance to apologize. If you politely kneel and bow your heads, I’ll forgive you.”

At Elena’s words, the flustered Seirun 2nd year male student spoke somewhat firmly.

“We only stated facts, didn’t we? I don’t think it’s something to kneel for?”

“Right! If you don’t like this evaluation, speak with your skills!”

“I explained why I felt bad and gave you a chance to apologize.”

Ferocity appeared in the eyes of Elena, called the Queen of Lumern.

“You’re the ones who kicked away the opportunity, right?”

As soon as those words ended, bright light burst forth.

Crash-!

The nobleman’s mansion was instantly devastated.

At the sudden explosion sound, Hadin and the lord who had been talking rushed over urgently.

And Hadin’s face hardened as he saw the familiar face trampling on his junior female student’s head.

“Oh my, you don’t seem to be in a position to confidently mock our school?”

Press-!

Though Elena usually looked down on those around her, she couldn’t tolerate others looking down on Lumern.

She was the daughter of Lumern Academy’s chairman.

And the next chairman of Lumern.

She couldn’t tolerate those who insulted her alma mater.

“Elena… Jeron.”

“Hello, Hadin.”

Elena smiled brightly at the Seirun 3rd year representative she had been competing with for three years.

“It seems you need to educate your juniors a bit?”

***

“R-run! It’s a witch!”

“Do you want to die? Have you ever seen such an innocent and lovely witch?”

“She’s not exactly innocent and lovely, is she?”

“What? Do you want to die first?”

Runia glared at Leo.

Even while doing so, Runia’s magic steadily targeted the bandits.

The bandits swept up in the surging waves of flame screamed.

Runia burst into laughter while chasing the bandits who were screaming and running away.

“Evil villains who torment good people! I shall send you to hell!”

‘Just looking at her expression, she really is a witch.’

Leo chuckled and shook his head.

‘That side of her resembles Luna.’

Probably Runia would have been happy if she heard that, and Luna would have been angry, Leo thought as he looked at the castle ruins entrance visible in the distance.

‘It’s completely in ruins.’

The castle ruins entrance had completely lost its former sturdiness.

Leo followed Runia into the castle ruins.

There, Runia was using magic to subjugate the bandits.

The skills of Seirun Academy’s 1st year representative were truly overwhelming.

Though they had considerable numbers, they weren’t at a level that rural bandits could handle.

“T-take a hostage! Grab a hostage!”

The bandits spotted Leo and came rushing toward him in a swarm.

“Shouldn’t it usually be the other way around?”

Even as he let out a hollow laugh, Leo lightly raised his hand.

Flash-!

Leo, who completed the magic formula in an instant, sent a whirlwind of flames toward the bandits.

“Aaaaaahhh!”

The bandits screamed and scattered in all directions.

The complete annihilation of the bandit group happened in an instant.

“Hmph! Those worthless things were acting all cocky.”

Runia, who dusted off her hands, looked at Leo.

‘What is he doing?’

Runia, wearing a puzzled expression, approached Leo.

Meanwhile, Leo was kneeling down and sweeping the ground.

‘…It seems like… Gardstron itself is buried underground.’

Even though thousands of years had passed, it was the final fortress that served as the world’s last line of defense.

The fact that such a fortress only remained in documents and disappeared without a trace seemed strange.

But Leo, who had entered the castle ruins where old remnants faintly remained, could tell.

‘This place is the upper part of the Walls of Gardstron.’

The Walls of Gardstron had height and thickness that were unimaginable by today’s standards.

Gardstron was a city so massive that it couldn’t even be compared to the refugee city Reissar.

Leo, who had been sweeping the ground, realized that a faint energy was flowing underground.

‘Dark magic… I see.’

Leo narrowed his eyes.

‘Did Tartaros cover up Gardstron?’

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