Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 261

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261

“We need to find the Black Rabbit first.”

“Who is the Black Rabbit?”

As Arga muttered while walking through the streets of Dwelonia, the wolf beastman female student walking beside her tilted her head.

“Who else could it be? The Lumern Student Council President.”

“Ooh!”

“As expected of our boss!”

Along with Ar’s words, the Ajonia students following her burst into exclamations of admiration.

“Your ambition is extraordinary! Boss!”

“As expected of Ajonia’s 2nd year number one!”

“You’re planning to face Leo Flobe first!”

“I’ll face him, but…”

Arga adjusted her Ajonia uniform beret.

“Before those idiots cause trouble, I need to prevent unnecessary fights…”

“Boss Ar is targeting Leo Flobe’s neck! Find him!”

“Listen to what I’m saying, you idiots!”

Before she could even finish speaking, Arga shouted at the students following her.

‘The Black Rabbit mocks me calling me a simple-minded stupid cat, but look at these guys!’

Ar clenched her fists with veins bulging on her forehead.

‘The real simple-minded idiots are right here!’

Those currently following behind Ar were none other than the students of Ar’s faction.

Ar didn’t create the faction.

The reason factions formed was due to Ajonia’s school culture.

Hero Academies are fundamentally meritocratic wherever you go.

Lumern teaches all students equally according to their school culture.

In that process, those who can’t keep up must leave the school.

Seirun strictly divides students into advanced, intermediate, and basic classes and educates them according to their class level.

And Ajonia.

Ajonia’s educational philosophy is just one thing.

Survival of the fittest.

Ajonia doesn’t have exams that evaluate academic performance by semester like Lumern or Seirun.

Every moment is a test.

Duels occur daily by grade level, determining rankings.

The weak can challenge the strong at any time to seize their position.

And preferential treatment for the strong is definite.

Students with lower rankings had to follow the words of students with higher rankings.

Of course, it’s not absolute command.

Only the top five students per grade have absolute command authority.

And their status is equal.

As a result, students gather under top-ranking students according to their tendencies, forming factions.

They cannot give orders to students from other factions.

So faction formation was very natural in Ajonia.

Ar covered her face with her hands and let out a deep sigh while looking at the students wagging their tails like puppies in front of her.

Ajonia’s 2nd year number one.

Ar Tune.

Her faction students were particularly famous for their high loyalty.

There was no other reason.

It was because Ar was strong.

From the moment she enrolled, Ar had been troubled by challengers targeting her position.

After factions formed, other factions even conspired systematically to bring down Ar.

But Ar broke through all of that with only her own strength.

Now, no one dares to easily covet Ar’s position.

Overwhelming strength.

Beastmen admire strength as much as they admire the strong.

Yet she didn’t wield the privileges given to her as number one.

Everyone in Ar’s faction was equal.

In Ajonia where it was natural for the strong to wield privileges, Ar’s behavior was extremely radical.

Naturally, students with low rankings gathered into Ar’s faction.

Other factions would mock Ar’s faction behind their backs, calling it a ‘gathering place for the weak.’

Whenever Ar heard such talk, she wouldn’t let the speaker off easy.

This was why Ar’s faction had such high loyalty to her.

“Boss! I have a good idea!”

At that moment, one large bear beastman male student spoke confidently.

Cat ears perked up under the beret.

‘He’s definitely going to say something weird.’

Duran Tig.

Within Ar’s faction, he was second to none when it came to causing trouble without thinking.

“What is it?”

‘Still, let me hear it first.’

“I overheard Wern’s plan.”

“That bear-brain?”

‘I’m getting more anxious.’

Wern Damun.

A student famous for being the smartest among 2nd year bear beastmen.

Of course, that smartness was limited to ‘bear beastmen.’

Even among beastmen, bear beastmen are famous for having the greatest physical strength.

As a result, they were also the species with the strongest tendency to solve everything with force.

Not all bear beastmen are like that, but anyway, Wern Damun is a student who is smart yet has typical bear beastman tendencies.

In other words, he’s good at scheming but doesn’t consider the consequences of what might happen from those schemes.

“Find a student who’s close friends with Leo Flobe, then bring that student to our hideout.”

“Rejected!”

“Why?”

“You’re suggesting we kidnap a Lumern student right now?!”

At Ar’s outcry, Duran shook his head.

“No, boss. If we kidnap them, it becomes a big deal. I know that much too! We just need to politely bring them and treat them politely!”

“What if the Black Rabbit’s friend refuses to come?”

“Um… use a little force…”

“That’s kidnapping! You idiot!”

Ar, who had kicked Duran in the solar plexus, gasped.

“Wait. If such a damn plan was made… doesn’t that mean it’s already been put into action?”

“Probably?”

Ar grabbed the back of her neck.

‘Hey principal! Why did you put that up as a prize!’

The reason Ajonia students were fired up to defeat Leo.

It wasn’t simply because of Leo’s reputation.

Ajonia’s principal, Jepia, had put a prize on Leo’s head this time.

‘To whoever defeats Leo Flobe in martial combat and raises Ajonia’s reputation, I will give the opportunity to challenge Lord Arron’s Hero Record!’

Hero Arron is the object of admiration for all beastmen.

And Ajonia’s students yearn to become the strongest warrior like him.

For such beastmen, the reward of challenging the hero’s Hero Record is a treasure that cannot be exchanged for anything else.

It wasn’t strange that the entire 2nd year had their eyes turned upside down since such a thing was put up as a prize.

“First, let’s find that bastard Dion.”

“Why Dion?”

Dion Den.

Ar’s childhood friend and the undisputed 2nd place among Ajonia’s 2nd years.

He was a student evaluated as Ar’s greatest rival.

And Wern belonged to Dion’s faction.

“His faction’s idiot is about to cause trouble, so he should stop him…”

“Ar Tune!”

Just then, an urgent voice was heard from afar.

Arga turned his head.

Ajonia 2nd year rank 5.

He was a student belonging to the tiger beastman Borman’s faction.

“Big trouble! Lumern students have invaded the place our school established as a base! They’re saying we kidnapped students from their school…”

Ar looked up at the sky and lamented.

‘That blockhead bastard. I’ll find him and beat him to a pulp.’

***

Leo was leisurely touring Dwelonia by himself.

Throughout the city, statues of Dweno were erected.

And befitting its reputation as the world’s largest floating city, all the statues were made of gold.

They were beautiful statues that could be called works of art without exaggeration.

They actually looked like they could come alive and move at any moment.

Seeing this, Leo burst into laughter.

‘This city is praising Dweno.’

Even the name was derived from Dwelonia.

As such, it was certainly a city built to honor Dweno.

‘What kind of reaction would Dweno have shown if he had seen this city?’

Thinking such thoughts, Leo burst into laughter.

Certainly, his friends were often recorded differently from reality.

Dragons speak of Risinass as a wise and fair great sage-like image.

Of course, it was true that she had such aspects, but she also had quite a bit of a con artist streak.

‘She told a lot of lies too.’

Luna and Arron were the ones who were deceived the most.

When Luna would be indignant calling Risinass a con artist, Arron would timidly agree from the side.

‘She would give people false hope through lies. Well, most of that hope became real, so it’s hard to call them lies now.’

He recalled Risinass who would deceive people with well-intentioned lies to give them hope.

Anyway, she wasn’t as righteous a dragon as the dragons remembered her to be.

‘And Luna.’

The gentle and benevolent progenitor.

‘Bullshit. She was a tomboy and a fierce female thug.’

How else would Dweno have commented that she would be a god-given work of art ‘if only she kept her mouth shut’?

‘And Arron was…’

A brave and strong man.

In reality, he was a timid coward and extremely weak.

That’s why everyone in the expedition force was always surprised in major battles.

‘How that coward could show such courage is still a mystery.’

Leo smiled bitterly while thinking of Arron.

Finally, Dweno.

‘Dweno was recorded exactly as he actually was.’

It was also true that as the elder of the party, he became the mental pillar for the party members.

His firm will and steadfast character.

And with his unwavering steel-like spirit, he never spared advice.

If Risinass was the leader who led the expedition force, Dweno was the pillar that supported the expedition force.

‘If Dweno hadn’t been there after Arron died… everyone would have collapsed.’

It was none other than Dweno who suffered the greatest shock and guilt from Arron’s death.

But even in that situation, Dweno took care of the other party members.

‘Get a grip! Risinass! What are you going to do if you, the leader, waver!’

After barely managing to defeat Erebos, Dweno got angry.

‘Luna! Stop with the tears! We made a choice! Arron was prepared too! Throw away the sadness! Forget Arron’s death! Think of only one thing!’

He spoke particularly harshly to Luna, who was wavering the most.

Hearing those words, Luna was truly angry at Dweno.

But Dweno willingly took on the role of the villain.

‘Kail.’

Dweno’s steadfast eyes came to mind.

‘It’s because the weapon I made was terrible, it’s not your responsibility.’

He thus shouldered the responsibility for Arron’s death alone.

After collecting himself and just before the next battle, Dweno looked down at his hands and muttered.

‘Now that I look at it… Luna. You were right. My hands… are ugly.’

Dweno had always been proud of his hands.

He would say these hands were the ones that created beauty.

He boasted that they were the prettiest hands among the group.

Whenever he did that, Luna would tease him saying they were ugly dwarf hands.

Luna was flustered by Dweno’s words.

‘N-no. Your hands are quite cute too!’

At those words, Dweno burst into laughter, and only then could the two reconcile.

That was the last conversation between Dweno and Luna.

‘Thinking about it, that was his personality.’

He always accepted everything as an adult.

That’s why among the personalities recorded in history now, Dweno’s personality was closest to the truth.

‘Well, except for the fact that he was a pervert.’

Leo burst into laughter.

If Dweno saw this city, he probably would have cursed.

Dweno pursued beauty, but he extremely hated flashy luxury.

He surely would have crushed his golden statue with those pot lid-like hands if he saw it.

It was when Leo was lost in memories of the past while thinking of Dweno.

“You there.”

Someone spoke to Leo.

When he turned around, there stood a small-statured woman.

She was short, coming up to Leo’s waist.

Anyone could see she was a dwarf.

But overall, something wasn’t very dwarf-like about her.

Basically, her fashion was very flashy.

“You’re a man, but you have a beauty different from the typical masculine image.”

She looked Leo up and down thoroughly, then asked seriously.

“Have you ever thought about becoming a nude model?”

‘What the hell, this woman is just like Dweno.’

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