Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 181

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181

“The sparring evaluation is only a week away now.”

After Combat Studies class, during dinner time.

Cal, completely worn out, trudged toward the dormitory communal bathhouse and asked.

“That’s right.”

“Ah~ seriously. I wonder who I’ll end up fighting?”

“Maybe we two might end up facing each other.”

“What? That’s absolutely not happening, okay?”

Cal shook his head in horror at Leo’s words.

Fighting against the year representative?

Cal clicked his tongue, thinking whoever it would be had bad luck.

“By the way, I never thought you’d actually complete the Bible?”

“I haven’t completed it. I’m still far from the level I’m aiming for.”

“Still. You used Torua’s magic.”

The entire academy was already in an uproar with rumors about Leo’s magic.

“Hey, if this goes well, won’t the Magic Tower come asking to research it?”

“There’s no way Lumern would allow that.”

From the Magic Tower’s perspective, Leo’s Bible would definitely be something they’d want to research at any cost.

But Lumern would never allow that.

From Lumern’s standpoint, having Leo researched would be like losing talent.

Leo and Cal entered the bathhouse, washed themselves, and soaked in the bath.

“Ahh~! Taking a bath after doing something really intense feels like being in heaven!”

“You sound too much like an old man?”

“You’re the one who acts most like an old man among the first-years!”

Cal grumbled at Leo’s words.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

Splash-

Just then, Avad came over and sat down next to the two.

“What is it?”

“I’m curious about Leo’s magic. It’s natural for a mage to be curious.”

Avad smiled broadly.

After that, Avad asked Leo questions about the Bible.

“Hmm. If it’s that kind of concept, then it’s literally your own unique magic. But the spell structure itself is interesting. It could be applied to wind magic too, couldn’t it?”

“That’s right.”

Leo nodded as he watched Avad muttering while resting his chin on his hand.

The faces of other male students who had been showing interest nearby changed strangely.

“What language are they speaking right now?”

“I can’t understand any of it.”

A male student from the Knight Department nearby looked incredulous at Cal’s words.

“Hey, how can you say that when you’re from the Magic Studies Department?”

“Not all Magic Studies Department students are the same, you know?”

“Wow, why are you so confident? Don’t you feel ashamed?”

“It’s not at a level where I’d feel ashamed. Do you feel ashamed when you look at Selia, Chen Xia, or Duran?”

“No.”

Cal said while chatting with the nearby students.

“By the way, Avad. Who are you going to choose as your sparring evaluation opponent? You can designate someone and fight if they accept, right? Leo, as expected?”

Avad rested his chin on his hand at Cal’s question.

“No.”

Cal made a strange expression as he looked at Avad’s broad smile.

“Why?”

“No. I just find it amazing that you and Chelsea are siblings.”

Avad, who always wore a spring breeze-like smile, and Chelsea, who had a stormy personality that could strike at any moment.

The Rwallin siblings might look similar, but their personalities were complete opposites.

Avad chuckled at Cal’s words.

“If not Leo, then Selia?”

“I’d like to fight Selia too, but right now there’s someone I really want to defeat.”

“Who?”

“Woreden.”

Cal made a puzzled expression at this unexpected opponent.

“Don’t you have no particular connection with Woreden?”

“Woreden doesn’t have connections with anyone.”

Though Woreden was the top student in the Summoning Department, he had little interaction with other students.

He liked being alone and was a man of few words.

Moreover, the intimidating presence from his characteristically large build made it difficult for other students to approach him.

“But he’s definitely strong. Overwhelmingly so.”

Avad smiled.

“Should I say I definitely want to defeat him first before taking down Leo or Selia?”

“Hmm. I can’t easily imagine who would win?”

Cal also knew how strong Woreden was.

But even so, Avad was also the top in the Magic Studies Department when it came to combat ability alone.

It was still unpredictable.

“Leo, have you decided on an opponent? There are guys who quite enthusiastically want to fight you, aren’t there?”

“Don’t even mention it. Do you know how many times they visit our class in a single day?”

Cal grumbled.

The students Avad mentioned who wanted to have a sparring evaluation with Leo.

Those were Duran and Eliza.

Woreden had also designated Leo, but he didn’t show as enthusiastic a reaction as Duran and Eliza.

“But when those two come together, they always fight with each other! I wish those two would just fight each other instead!”

Avad burst into laughter as Cal grumbled.

“Anyway, shall we also talk about the Magic Studies Department exam?”

When Cal spoke seriously, Avad nodded.

“Good idea.”

“Let’s talk while eating dinner. And maybe study together a bit while we’re at it.”

Cal took the initiative actively.

For Cal, studying together with Avad, who was first in the Magic Studies Department, was tremendously helpful in itself.

Avad seemed to find Cal’s enthusiasm not bad and readily agreed.

Actually, Cal was very close with Chelsea, but surprisingly had no connection with Avad.

Not only were they in different classes, but during magic lessons, Cal was mainly close with Chloe.

‘If I get closer with Avad, maybe Chelsea will hassle me less?’

Cal muttered to himself as he headed to the cafeteria.

Upon entering the dormitory cafeteria, the entire dormitory was engulfed in tremendous chaos.

They whispered among themselves and talked in bewilderment.

“Is this really okay?”

“I don’t think the seniors will just let this slide?”

“Did something happen?”

Cal tilted his head and approached a nearby first-year.

“What’s going on?”

“Cal, and… Leo?”

“It’s Leo.”

“Leo?”

“Let’s see, let’s see.”

Swoosh-

In an instant, the noisy cafeteria was enveloped in silence.

Everyone was staring at Leo.

Cal was a bit flustered by those gazes.

“What? What on earth is going on?”

It was when Cal was panicking.

Thud- Thud-

Selia appeared through the crowd and handed Leo the school newspaper with a confused expression.

Seeing this, Cal gasped with a “Huk-!”

Avad also widened his eyes.

[1st Year Leo Flobe! Becomes Student Council President Candidate!]

Leo muttered as he saw the title printed huge on the front page.

“They really did it?”

“You knew about it?”

“Ris hyung told me about it recently. That someone recommended me for student council president.”

The students were shocked by those words.

“I don’t know who it was, but does it make sense to announce it like this just because they recommended you?”

“Right. There’s Hark senior and Elena senior too.”

“If they recommend someone other than those two, they’ll just get on the bad side of both seniors for no reason.”

Students who didn’t know the detailed circumstances began to murmur.

“Who recommended you for student council president?”

At Selia’s question, Leo folded the newspaper and said.

“Elena senior.”

“What?”

“Elena senior?”

All the students showed shocked expressions.

If Leo’s words were true, then Leo was receiving support from the person called the Queen of Lumern.

“Leo, what are you going to do?”

Cal asked while gulping down dry saliva.

A 1st year student council president?

This was an unprecedented event that had never happened once in Lumern’s history.

‘No, honestly this is a poisoned chalice, isn’t it?’

Even if he didn’t do it, Leo would surely already be marked by the upperclassmen.

Even if he did it, it would surely be difficult for Leo to become student council president.

At Cal’s question, Leo chuckled.

“What do you mean what am I going to do. I have to become student council president.”

***

“Wait? Does this make sense?”

“No matter what, this isn’t right! A 1st year as a student council president candidate!”

The 2nd Year Dormitory that heard the news was in chaos.

“Hey! Lil! Haven’t you heard anything? You’re the year representative!”

A Summoning Department student urgently asked Lil.

Lil, who was holding the newspaper, looked at the article with a serious face, then soon smiled brightly.

“Thank goodness. This means I won’t have to become student council president, right?”

“Hey! Is this the time to be thinking about that!”

“B-but! If an ordinary person like me becomes student council president, it would greatly tarnish Lumern’s reputation…!”

“When are you going to fix that timid personality! You’re more than qualified to become student council president when you’re a 5th year!”

“W-when I become a 5th year…?”

Lil pondered, then soon made a tearful face.

“Can’t we just hand it over to Leo?”

“Argh! Really! Do you know how embarrassing it is to have a class that doesn’t produce a student council president!”

“S-sorry.”

All the 2nd years held their heads seeing their timid year representative.

“Elena!”

“Look at the newspaper!”

“Ris senior…!”

Elena, who was eating in the 3rd Year Dormitory Cafeteria, frowned as she saw her classmates rushing over.

And she wiped her mouth with a napkin and rolled her eyes.

“What’s all the commotion about?”

Everyone swallowed seeing Elena like that.

It was when everyone was being cautious, realizing they had upset Elena, the real power of the school.

“Elena. Look at this. Ris senior pushed Leo Flobe as a student council president candidate.”

At the words of Takhon, the vice-captain of the Blue Moon Party and a 3rd year Knight Department student who handed her the newspaper, Elena widened her eyes and reached out to read the newspaper.

“Hmm? The president has made his decision.”

The 3rd years spoke as they watched Elena get up from her seat with a thud.

“This doesn’t make sense! He’s pushing him just because he’s his cousin!”

“Ris senior wouldn’t do that, would he?”

“B-but still.”

“Since Hark senior has no motivation, isn’t he trying to set up a puppet?”

“No matter what, would he make a 1st year student council president? The 4th years must be in chaos right now too?”

Elena spoke as she watched her classmates urgently talking to each other.

“Everyone calm down.”

“This isn’t something to calm down about. Elena. No matter how much he’s the student council president, this is clearly an action that disrespects you.”

At Takhon’s words, Elena smiled sweetly.

“The president didn’t particularly disrespect me.”

“Then what?”

“The one who recommended Leo as student council president was me.”

“…”

“…”

In an instant, the 3rd years made dumbfounded expressions.

“When I brought up that topic, you should have seen how dumbfounded the president looked. I’ve watched that person for a long time, but it was the first time I saw such an expression. You all should have seen it.”

Takhon pressed his temple as he watched Elena laugh cheerfully.

“Wait. Elena. So what you’re saying is… you’re the one who recommended Leo Flobe as student council president? Why?”

“Well.”

Elena crossed her arms.

“Because I want to.”

All the 3rd years made blank expressions.

They felt like all their efforts to help Elena become student council president had become useless.

‘Well, we helped her when she said she’d do it with her own power.’

‘But still…’

“So.”

Elena smiled brightly.

That smile unmistakably carried the unique tyrannical temperament that she, also called the Witch of Lumern, possessed.

“I’m saying I’ll do it, so do you have a problem with that?”

Unlike the chaotic 2nd and 3rd years, the 4th years’ reaction was surprisingly calm.

“I don’t know what the president is thinking.”

“Right. He was truly a respectable senior for four years, but he’s causing a major incident in his final year.”

The 4th years who were muttering with serious faces while looking at the newspaper glanced at Hark, who was sleeping with his face buried in the table, and let out deep sighs.

“But seeing that guy, it seems like it would be better for a 1st year to become student council president instead.”

“I agree.”

The 4th-years had already half-given up on the student council president competition.

***

Ris’s announcement brought tremendous aftershocks to the academy.

Not just to Lumern.

Even outsiders who received the news were on edge at this unbelievable development, focusing their attention on Lumern’s situation.

Normally, the entire school would have been turned upside down.

But surprisingly, Lumern’s atmosphere was calm.

The majority of 4th-years, who should have been the most opposed, were cautiously taking a wait-and-see approach.

And as for the 3rd-years, Elena had them under perfect control.

The 2nd-years found it awkward to step forward first when the 3rd and 4th-years weren’t saying anything.

Only the 1st-years were watching their seniors’ reactions when… the 1st-year sparring evaluation began.

Originally, the 1st-year sparring evaluation had quite a festive atmosphere, like the familiar relay during the mid-term summoning studies exam in the first semester.

The 1st-years who had been honing their skills had built up abilities incomparable to when they first enrolled.

As a result, there were often cases where previously known skill levels were overturned during sparring matches.

Students who hadn’t stood out during the first semester would suddenly emerge as dark horses.

Or top-tier students would be defeated by lower-ranked ones.

Literally unpredictable results occurred, making for quite entertaining outcomes.

That’s why not only 1st-years but also upperclassmen would come to observe and appreciate their juniors’ abilities during the exam.

However, this 1st-year sparring evaluation had so many people hoping to observe that it ended up being held at the school’s central Daeyeon Parade Ground, Erec.

The 1st-years were even more visibly nervous due to the record-breaking crowd.

[We will now begin the sparring evaluation nomination ceremony!]

A 5th-year holding a voice amplification magic device began hosting.

Usually a professor would handle this, but this time one of the 5th-year students took charge.

The reason was simple.

Cheira, a graduating student with less to do, had volunteered because she was bored.

[As you all know, this sparring evaluation will proceed a bit unusually! The first match will be conducted through ‘nomination’! Isn’t this exciting? We can see which students have rivalry with each other! Wow~ This will be fun! How great would it have been if we had done this since our 1st year?]

Cheira, an excited 5th-year from the Knight Department, chattered away enthusiastically.

Originally famous for being talkative, she found the current situation extremely entertaining.

‘There she goes, there she goes! I knew she’d do that!’

‘Hey! Someone drag her away!’

Just as other professors were frantically trying to stop her rampage.

[Cheira Sikun. You seem to want a private meeting with me?]

[Hieek?]

When Lumerne Wall of Lamentations, Hallind, gave a warning mid-speech, Cheira was horrified.

Hallind.

He was the terrifying professor who could make anyone ‘drop out’ if he felt like it, whether they were graduating students or not.

Cheira, who instantly came to her senses, rushed to Leo with a trembling voice.

[Th-then! We’ll start with the year representative, Leo Flobe, making his nomination!]

Avoiding Hallind’s gaze as much as possible, Cheira approached Leo with stiff movements.

[Leo. Is there someone you want to fight?]

“Yes.”

[Oh! I’m really curious who the year representative wants to fight? Now, point with your finger.]

At those words, Leo raised his hand.

The upperclassmen looked displeased as they watched Leo, who had been mentioned as student council president this time.

‘Whoever his opponent is, let’s see how well he can fight.’

‘He’s just a 1st-year after all.’

Most of them were very displeased with the fact that a 1st-year had become a student council president candidate.

Leo pointed his finger not at the training ground where his 1st-year peers were gathered, but beyond to the spectator stands.

Everyone was surprised to see where Leo’s finger was pointing.

Leo was pointing his finger precisely at one person among the 5th-years.

[Uh… so… uh…]

Cheira looked back and forth between Leo and the opponent he was pointing at with a bewildered voice, then carefully asked.

[You want to fight Ris?]

“Yes.”

Leo smiled.

“You never said I had to choose an opponent from among the 1st-years, did you?”

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