Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 346

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346

The exam period was now just one week away.

Accordingly, tension was spreading among Seirun’s freshmen.

“This is my seat, isn’t it?”

“It was empty, so why is this your seat?”

“I just went somewhere for a moment. I had my book placed here, you know?”

“There was nothing like that though?”

“What? You deliberately moved my book, didn’t you?”

First Year Library.

Sharp voices went back and forth in a place that should have been quiet.

“You’re both being noisy, can’t you see I’m studying?”

At that moment, an irritated voice cut between the two people.

The two students who had been reacting sharply to each other flinched.

Watching them, a female student snorted derisively.

“Hmph, typical of intermediate class nobodies to cause trouble for others.”

“What? What did you just say?”

“You’re only Upper Class 3 at best!”

“Oh my? Are upper class and intermediate class the same? You losers.”

“This…!”

Voices rose again.

Watching this scene, Eclaire, who had been studying, stood up from her seat.

As the exam period approached, the atmosphere among the freshmen became increasingly sharp.

Particularly, there were frequent neurotic disputes between Intermediate Class 1, who could move up to upper class at any time, and Upper Class 3, who could fall to intermediate class if they slipped up.

‘This isn’t right.’

Eclaire muttered to herself.

Upper Class 1.

Even though Eclaire was the year representative, she couldn’t adapt to the recent school atmosphere.

She understood well that as long as it was a school, there was no choice but to compete.

She also understood that as the year representative, there were many who coveted her position.

But even so, the recent school atmosphere was too blatant.

Except for Rea and Elric, who had higher grades than her.

The Upper Class 1 students were busy keeping Eclaire in check.

Many students wouldn’t even try to talk to Eclaire, and even those who did talk to her would badmouth her behind her back.

It wasn’t like the class atmosphere was good either.

She was just receiving concentrated checks because she was the year representative.

The Upper Class 1 students were also desperate to devour each other.

‘Teacher Geras, who newly came as our homeroom teacher, seems to be encouraging that atmosphere…’

At least Rea was different.

She was the overwhelming top student of the year and also a direct descendant of the Tingel Family.

Everyone was desperate to become friends with Rea somehow.

Among them were those who blatantly tried to drive a wedge between Rea and Eclaire.

It was the doing of prestigious family children who looked down on the Wellarun Family that Eclaire belonged to.

Of course, Rea was blatantly ignoring them.

‘But… a school life where I can only open my heart to two friends… I never imagined it.’

Drooping her ears, Eclaire looked for a place where she could study quietly.

In any case, she had to do her best as the 3rd place student in the year.

Having arrived at a secluded part of the freshmen building, The Castle of Beginnings, Eclaire looked around.

The old classroom building.

It was a place with few people where no one came.

‘Here I should be able to study quietly…’

“Ahahahahaha!”

At that moment, the sound of several people laughing simultaneously could be heard from afar.

Eclaire’s ears perked up.

It was somehow an incredibly joyful laughter.

Eclaire, clutching her textbooks tightly to her chest, stealthily headed toward where the sound came from.

And seeing the old corridor she had arrived at, Eclaire’s eyes widened.

‘Lower Class?’

It was when Eclaire realized she had somehow come to the Lower Class classroom and blinked her eyes.

“Correct! Emetra’s Magic Theory Summary!”

“Wrong!”

“Argh!”

“You idiot! What happens when you get it wrong! It’s a penalty!”

“Penalty! Penalty!”

Reproachful shouts and jeering sounds could be heard.

But those voices were full of playfulness.

Eclaire swallowed her dry saliva and carefully opened the back door of the classroom to look inside.

There, Lower Class students had divided into teams and were having a quiz battle.

The scope of the quiz battle seemed to be the written exam range for this midterm exam.

For penalties and such, they ate incredibly sour and spicy fruits.

It was when Eclaire was blankly watching that joyful-looking scene.

Creak-!

“Huh?!”

The door suddenly opened.

Thud-!

“Gah?!”

Eclaire, who had been leaning against the door watching the Lower Class play, fell forward as she was.

In an instant, the gazes of a hundred Lower Class students pierced into Eclaire.

“Eklerer Wellarun?”

“Isn’t that the year representative?”

“What business does the year representative have in Lower Class?”

The Lower Class students looked at Eclaire with wary expressions.

“Ah, sorry, I just came here by chance while looking for a place to study!”

Eclaire answered while getting up.

“What? You didn’t come to spy on us, did you?”

“Right! You might have come to tattle to the upper class teachers.”

There had been several times when upper class and intermediate class students had caused trouble for Lower Class by making false accusations and claiming rule violations to look good to teachers.

On top of that, the Lower Class students were studying the [Introduction to Star Magic] which they shouldn’t be caught with, so their wariness was even stronger.

Seeing the Lower Class students showing blatant distrust and hostility, Eclaire panicked and waved her hands.

“No, no! I really only came to study for exams! Really!”

It was when Eclaire was speaking with a tearful expression.

“Hey guys, stop it. She said she came to study.”

Angr calmed down his classmates as he spoke.

“And Eklerer Wellarun is different from the other upper class kids. She’s a good kid.”

“If Angr says so.”

“But if you’re the year representative, shouldn’t you be able to study in the best seat in the library?”

“Right, why did you come all the way to the Lower Class area?”

The students looked at each other and tilted their heads.

“Upper class probably has its own troubles.”

Eclaire’s ears drooped at Leo’s words.

Seeing such Eclaire, Angr scratched his cheek and said.

“If you need a place to study during self-study time, would you like to join us?

“Really? Is that okay?”

Angr nodded as he looked at Eclaire’s bright smile.

“Of course, everyone’s fine with it, right?”

“Yeah. We don’t mind.”

The overall atmosphere was to follow the words of Angr, the class leader.

Watching this scene, Leo chuckled softly.

‘Nice atmosphere.’

The next day.

As soon as class ended, Eclaire headed somewhere.

The Upper Class students who were watching her began to whisper among themselves.

“Did you hear? Eclaire was hanging out with the Lower Class kids yesterday?”

“What a disgrace to the Upper Class.”

Mockery poured out from here and there.

Rea, who was organizing her books, glared at them and looked toward the door Eclaire had left through, thinking.

‘I’m so envious! Eclaire!’

In the Lower Class was Leo, whom Rea greatly admired.

Eclaire had gone to study with that Leo.

‘Right now, the Lower Class kids are probably receiving guidance from Flobe Sunbaenim, right? I want to go study with them too.’

But Rea couldn’t do that.

She recalled what Leo had said to the two second-year seniors.

Runia and Eiran.

‘He said it would only be valuable if they raised their grades with just the Lower Class’s strength.’

If Rea went to study with them, there would definitely be talk behind their backs.

‘Of course, since Eclaire is also the grade representative, there might be talk too, but…’

Rea couldn’t bring herself to stop Eclaire.

Because she knew that Eclaire, her closest friend, was having a difficult time with school life.

‘Eclaire really wants to make lots of friends.’

Right now, neither the Upper Class nor the Intermediate Class had an atmosphere where one could make friends.

It was when Rea let out a small sigh.

“Rea.”

“Yeah, Elric.”

“Eclaire… shouldn’t we stop her?”

Elric expressed concern, seemingly worried about his friend.

Looking at such Elric, Rea said while packing her bag.

“She’ll be fine. Don’t worry too much.”

“Still…”

“I should be more worried about you instead?”

“What?”

“Eclaire might steal your second place.”

Rea smiled and left the classroom.

‘Our school needs to change.’

Receiving reverent gazes from other students, Rea sighed.

The scenes she had thought of as ordinary until now looked different after hearing Leo’s words.

She realized that Lower Class students were clearly being discriminated against.

‘If it doesn’t change, whether father opposes it or not, I’ll transfer to Lumern.’

Rea clasped her hands together and fell into fantasy.

‘Then I could spend happy school days receiving guidance from Flobe Sunbaenim?!’

After Rea left the classroom.

Teacher Geras, who remained in the classroom, narrowed his eyes.

‘Eklerer Wellarun… hanging out with the Lower Class, as expected, a kid from an insignificant family can’t help it?’

With an annoyed expression, he curled up the corners of his mouth.

In his hand was the group assignment list for this practical exam.

The power of the Upper 1st Class homeroom teacher was immense.

The group assignment for the entire first year’s practical exam was his authority.

‘Hmph, if she ends up in the same group as those Lower Class brats, she’ll realize her mistake and regret it.’

***

After school.

When the Lower Class students were studying in their classroom to prepare for the exam.

Lora called Leo aside.

“Student Leo, the practical exam list has arrived.”

Lora said in a reluctant voice.

“Student Leo isn’t on it, of course.”

“Of course I wouldn’t be.”

Leo wasn’t a student of Seirun to begin with.

It would be a big problem if he were on the exam list.

Even if he were, just Leo’s presence alone would be a balance breaker.

Because there was no way Seirun’s first years, who hadn’t even shed their freshman status yet, could compete with Leo.

“Yes, but there’s something strange.”

“Something strange?”

“Yes. Student Eclaire, who is the grade representative… has been assigned to the same group as our class students?”

Leo made an incredulous expression.

“She’s in the same group as the Lower Class kids?”

“Yes. It seems she fell out of Teacher Geras’s favor because she’s been hanging out with our class students.”

Lora sighed.

Leo also made a reluctant expression.

“Doesn’t the Upper Class teacher look down on the Lower Class?”

“…That’s right.”

“But he’s putting that kid with the Lower Class kids?”

“Yes.”

Leo looked at Eclaire, who was smiling brightly among the Lower Class students, with an incredulous expression.

‘The group that includes her will definitely place in at least the top 5, right? What on earth is that Upper Class teacher thinking?’

***

The day of Seirun’s first-year midterm practical exam.

All of Seirun’s students gathered at the 1st Year Building, Citadel of Beginnings.

The exam was to be held at the training ground in the outskirts of the first-year Citadel of Beginnings.

Since the exam task was monster subjugation, the first years’ faces were filled with tension.

Among them, some had expressions overflowing with anticipation at the fact that they could show their skills in front of their seniors.

This midterm exam was the first official opportunity for first years to showcase their abilities in front of their seniors since enrollment.

The first years wanted to get acquainted with their renowned seniors.

“Gasp! Aren’t those the second-year Tina seniors?”

“That’s right!”

“Should we try talking to them?”

The first years made a fuss while looking at the Tina siblings, who ranked 4th and 5th among the second years.

The Lower Class students were also surprised when they spotted the Tina siblings.

“Gasp! The Tina seniors!”

“I like them.”

The Tina siblings had been in the Lower Class when they first enrolled.

But through blood-curdling effort during the first semester, they climbed up to Upper 1st Class.

Although Eiran, who was second in the second year, was also an amazing talent who started in the Intermediate Class and claimed second place in the blink of an eye, to the Lower Class students, the Tina siblings who had started in the Lower Class were even more admirable.

Leo glanced at the Lower Class students.

They had studied hard, but now that the exam day had arrived, they looked quite nervous.

Leo, who had been watching the Lower Class students, approached the Tina siblings.

“Let’s see, are there any underclassmen who catch the eye?”

Aris, the younger sister, was examining the underclassmen with a meaningful expression.

At Aris’s words, Garin made a proud expression.

“I can feel the respectful gazes of the underclassmen.”

“They’re not looking at you, oppa, they’re looking at me.”

When Aris asked with a sly smile, Garin frowned.

“No way? They’re looking at me, okay?”

“There are three reasons why they’re looking at me. Should I teach you?”

“What are they?”

“First. Because I study better than oppa. Second, because I’ve been a grade representative. Third, because ‘you’ have never been a grade representative. Does that explain it?”

“How much better could you be than me! And you couldn’t even maintain the grade representative position for a week! And you! Did you just call your oppa ‘you’?”

“If you’re upset, then rank higher than me in grade standings! And are you bragging about being born 30 seconds earlier? Originally, the one who studies well is the older sister, you know? In that sense, I’m the older sister!”

“Where is this nonsense coming from?”

It was when the freshmen were getting flustered watching the twin siblings start fighting in earnest.

Someone approached the two.

The students who had been watching nervously, unable to interfere in the fight between sky-high seniors, burst into giggles.

“What? Isn’t that Lower Class?”

“Lower Class is talking to Upper Class seniors?”

“They don’t know their place.”

Leaving such mockery behind, Leo approached the two siblings and said.

“Seniors, our class kids say they really respect you both, so could you just say a word of encouragement?”

When someone spoke to them, the Tina siblings, who had been about to grab each other’s collars, hesitated.

And they cleared their throats with ahem! and looked at the person who had spoken.

“Yeah, which class… Gasp?!”

“Oppa, why are you… Eh?”

Garin and Aris, who had been trying to show senior dignity belatedly, made surprised expressions upon confirming Leo’s face.

“You, you! You you you! Why are you here?”

“No, why are you wearing our Academy uniform…”

“Shh-”

Leo raised his index finger to his lips and smiled slyly.

At that, Garin and Aris closed their mouths.

“Could you cheer on our class kids? They’re Lower Class.”

When Leo pointed to the Lower Class students who were gaping and spoke, Garin and Aris looked at each other’s faces and headed toward the Lower Class.

When everyone’s eyes widened, Garin said to the Lower Class students.

“Don’t be discouraged just because you’re Lower Class!”

“Right! If you work hard, you can do it too! Even this idiot made it to Upper Class, didn’t he?”

“Idiot? Did you just call your oppa an idiot?”

“If you’re upset, then study better than me!”

“I’m telling mom!”

“Ah! I’m going to tell dad that you pulled out my hair!”

The two siblings who had been cheering started fighting again, grabbing each other’s hair.

Watching that scene, the Lower Class students began to burst into laughter.

Leo chuckled at that and said.

“Everyone relax and just do as you practiced. I guarantee it.”

Leo looked at the Intermediate Class and Upper Class students and said.

“By the time this exam is over, the positions will have changed.”

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