Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 4

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4

Leo, who had left the unconscious Selia behind, returned to the manor.

In the manor’s living room, Raina and Jis were having a conversation.

Around them, the knights of Jerdinger stood in formation.

Raina, who spotted her son, smiled.

“Did you finish your training today?”

“Yes, Mother.”

Leo, who answered Raina’s question, glanced at Jis.

‘He kept going on about Jerdinger, Jerdinger. He really is impressive.’

Even in his previous life, it was rare to see such a martial artist.

‘The name Renowned Hero Families isn’t empty after all.’

“Leo, this is Jis Jerdinger. He’s a guest who has come to visit our family.”

“I’m Leo Flobe.”

“I’m Jis Jerdinger. As you probably already know, I’m your uncle. Feel free to be comfortable around me.”

“May I ask what you mean by being comfortable?”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Jerdinger blood flows through me. But I’m still not a Jerdinger.”

At Leo’s appearance of clearly drawing the line, Jis’s eyes gleamed and Raina shook her head.

‘My son has no cute charm at all.’

Jis Jerdinger.

Currently the vice head of the Jerdinger Family and officially second in the power hierarchy.

Normally, someone Leo’s age would be excited if such a person friendly called them ‘nephew.’

However, while they might be connected by blood, they were strangers in terms of family lineage.

The Jerdinger Family’s laws were very strict.

The reason Raina didn’t introduce Jis as uncle was also for this reason.

Leo had guessed this, which is why he asked.

“In official settings, I won’t be able to call you nephew.”

“I understand.”

Watching Leo answer so straightforwardly, Jis burst into laughter.

“You don’t seem like my sister’s son.”

“Hohoho. What might that mean?”

Raina asked while stepping on Jis’s foot and laughing.

“Leo. Didn’t you see a child named Selia at the Training Ground?”

“Her?”

Leo glanced toward the manor’s main gate.

He could see Selia being carried on a stretcher, foaming at the mouth.

“Gasp! M-Miss!”

“What is this!”

The Jerdinger knights were shocked.

“Huh.”

Jis let out an exclamation.

‘He defeated Selia with a body that hasn’t learned Orus?’

“Sir Whiten, what happened?”

At Jis’s question, Whiten recounted what had happened at the Training Ground.

After hearing this, Jis shook his head.

The cause of defeat was clear.

‘Arrogance.’

Selia had underestimated Leo simply because he couldn’t use Orus.

Of course, from a common sense perspective, it wasn’t wrong thinking.

The difference in combat power between Orus users and non-users was tremendous.

But the fact remained that Selia had been caught off guard.

‘And that’s not the Jerdinger way.’

Jis stood before Leo.

“To defeat Selia, that’s impressive.”

“This child underestimated me.”

“Right. But it seems there was a promise between you and Selia.”

“Yes. I made a bet with Selia Jerdinger. The loser would become the winner’s servant.”

“What!”

“Do you think that makes any sense?”

The Jerdinger knights bristled as if they couldn’t tolerate it.

A direct descendant of Jerdinger as a servant?

The Jerdinger knights glared at Leo.

But Leo didn’t even blink.

“From now on, Selia Jerdinger is my maid for one week.”

Raina chuckled softly.

Her son was the type who would do what he said he’d do.

Still, she didn’t expect him to say such things so calmly in front of the Jerdinger knights who were glaring with fierce eyes.

‘Who could stop that personality of his.’

Meanwhile, Jis smiled gently.

“Selia is a Jerdinger. I can’t have her do maid work.”

He continued in a persuasive tone.

“I’d like you to cancel the promise. Instead, I’ll give you other compensation. Yes, for example…”

Jis stroked his chin.

“How about our family’s advanced Orus Martial Arts?”

“I refuse.”

“What?”

“This bet is a promise between me and Selia Jerdinger.”

Leo glanced at Selia.

“You called her a ‘Jerdinger.’ Since she bears the name of a Renowned Hero Family, she should be able to take responsibility for her words.”

Leo looked away and met Jis’s eyes again.

“Even if there were negotiations, it would be between her and me. And…”

Leo drove the point home.

“If it’s Orus Martial Arts to be used as an excuse to cover up your niece’s humiliation, I don’t think it’s worth learning.”

Sparks flew from the eyes of the grinding knights.

“This is intolerable!”

“How dare you insult the Jerdinger!”

The knights shouted angrily.

Seeing this, Whiten scolded them furiously.

“In whose presence are you raising your voices right now!”

“B-but Captain!”

“There’s no reason to stay quiet after hearing such words!”

“It seems…”

Raina, who had been watching the situation, shook her head with an expressionless face.

“It seems the Jerdinger’s standards have fallen quite a bit while I was away from the family.”

“Even if you were once a Jerdinger, Lady Raina, that crosses the line!”

One knight spoke as if warning her.

Then murderous intent appeared in Whiten’s eyes.

“How dare you!”

Just as Whiten was about to explode in anger.

Raina raised her hand to stop Whiten.

Then he stood in front of the knights.

“Crossing the line? Then let me ask you. What exactly are you that you dare to interfere in the vice head’s conversation?”

At the cold question, bewilderment appeared on the knights’ faces.

“Th-that is…”

“Certainly, I am one who left the family. But still, Jerdinger remains a source of proud honor for me. So I think I should say what needs to be said.”

A sharp aura flowed from Raina’s body.

“Mere knight lackeys interfering when the vice head is speaking? Are you knights? Or are you beasts busy barking regardless of the situation?”

“Gasp!”

The knights swallowed their breath.

Raina’s dignity.

It was too similar to that of the family head.

Jis, who had been quietly watching this scene, spoke in a gentle voice.

“Sir Whiten.”

“Yes, Vice Head.”

“These men seem to lack the qualifications to be Jerdinger knights.”

“Understood.”

The knights’ faces turned pale.

Whiten left with the knights, his face stern.

“Still, isn’t stripping them of their knight qualifications too harsh?”

Raina, who knew well how difficult it was to become a Jerdinger knight, gently scolded.

“There was nothing wrong in what sister said. The title of knight is too precious to waste on beasts.”

Jis smiled gently.

He was someone who would graciously overlook subordinates’ mistakes.

But he was also someone who would coldly cut them off if mistakes continued.

The knights should have realized their error and retreated when Raina warned them.

After the storm passed.

Jis looked at Leo again.

“Leo Flobe. You declared that you would use a Jerdinger direct descendant as a maid and said that Jerdinger’s Orus Martial Arts had no value. Is that correct?”

“Yes.”

“Don’t you think those statements were reckless?”

Jis asked in a gentle voice.

Raina watched this scene quietly.

Jis was in charge of educating the Jerdinger family bloodline.

The teacher of all Jerdinger children.

So he was skilled at seeing through children’s potential.

‘He must be measuring Leo’s potential right now.’

Leo had probably already received a passing grade by Jis’s standards.

Yet the reason he was still pressing Leo.

It was because he hadn’t yet grasped how deep Leo’s potential truly was.

Leo also understood Jis’s intention.

So he chuckled inwardly.

“If you took it as an insult to Jerdinger, I apologize. But I didn’t particularly look down on Jerdinger.”

“If declaring you’d make a family direct descendant your maid and saying the family’s Orus Martial Arts has no value isn’t an insult, then what is?”

“As I said before, the matter with Selia Jerdinger is a deal between her and me. If she’s truly a Jerdinger, I thought she should be able to take responsibility for her words.”

“Oh?”

Jis nodded.

“And saying the Orus Martial Arts has no value didn’t mean Jerdinger’s Orus Martial Arts is lacking.”

“Then?”

“If you had granted me the Orus Martial Arts as a reward for defeating Selia, I would have gladly accepted it.”

Jis’s lips began to slowly curve upward.

“But you said you were giving me the Orus Martial Arts to cover up the mistake Selia made, didn’t you?”

“That’s right.”

“You thought that if Selia hadn’t been careless, she wouldn’t have lost to me.”

He lifted his chin as if making a declaration.

“But even if Selia had approached the duel seriously, I would have won.”

‘To summarize… he refused because he didn’t like my attitude? Haha, what kind of kid is this?’

Laughter burst out naturally.

When he turned to look at Raina, his sister was smiling as if to say ‘I told you so.’

‘I understand sister’s words now.’

Looking at Leo who was boldly staring up at him, Jis chuckled.

‘What tremendous potential. If such a child were a Jerdinger!’

Jerdinger would gain another hero.

‘I should tell brother.’

That this is a child the family should embrace.

“Send Selia to the maids’ quarters.”

“V-Vice Head!”

The servants tending to Selia on the stretcher looked flustered.

“It’s an order.”

The servants hesitantly took Selia to the maids’ quarters.

“I understand what you’re saying. I’ll follow your wishes.”

“Yes, Sir Jis.”

“Leo. When I said earlier that I wouldn’t call you nephew in ‘official’ settings, that also means I’ll treat you as a nephew in private.”

Jis smiled gently.

Whatever potential Leo had, these words were sincere.

Knowing this, Leo also complied obediently.

“Yes, Uncle.”

“Good. You seem tired from training, so go in and rest.”

“Have a peaceful night.”

Leo bowed his head politely.

“Mother, have a good night as well.”

“Yes. Rest well, Leo.”

After Leo left, only the two remained.

“Sister.”

“What?”

“I’ll try to persuade brother so that Leo can learn ‘Phoenix Breath.'”

“Phoenix Breath?”

Jerdinger’s symbol was burning flames.

Befitting that symbol, Jerdinger’s aura took the form of flames.

Among them, Phoenix Breath was special.

An aura completed by the first Jerdinger family head after drinking phoenix blood.

All the family’s Orus Martial Arts were derived from Phoenix Breath.

Its power was so tremendous that it allowed Jerdinger to maintain its reputation as a Renowned Hero Family for a long time.

Therefore, only those recognized among the bloodline could learn it.

Raina, who hadn’t expected him to bring up Phoenix Breath, couldn’t help but be surprised.

“Yes. Of course, it’s uncertain whether brother, as the family head, will permit it.”

Jis spoke seriously.

“But Leo is a child more befitting of Jerdinger than anyone else.”

His swordsmanship talent that defeated Selia.

His immeasurable great potential.

“So I need a justification to persuade brother.”

“You don’t mean?”

“Yes.”

Jis nodded his head.

“I’m going to enroll in Lumern.”

“It’s dangerous.”

Lumern, the academy that anyone who admires heroes dreams of entering.

However, enrolling in Lumern required that much resolve.

There’s a saying that every student at Lumern is a genius.

But the number of graduates is very small.

Of course, they don’t expel students who fall behind.

Rather, they spare no effort in supporting them to move forward.

But even so, if they can’t keep up with the classes.

Students are given two choices.

Withdrawal, or death.

That’s how harsh school life at Lumern is.

And the entrance exam is just as harsh.

The exam is conducted in real combat.

Every entrance exam, there are those who lose their lives.

That’s why Raina wanted Leo to take the entrance exam after learning Orus Martial Arts.

“Leo may be fine in sparring, but he has limits in real combat.”

“The possibility is sufficient. That’s the only way to convince my brother.”

Jis clenched his fist.

“What kind of person do you want Leo to become, sister?”

“What do you mean?”

“Don’t you want him to become a hero?”

“If that’s the path he wants.”

“Then we can’t only choose safe paths. I think it wouldn’t be bad to challenge trials.”

“…”

“What will you do?”

Raina closed her eyes and let out a deep sigh.

“I’ll follow Leo’s will.”

‘That child would naturally say he’ll do it.’

Jis was certain.

‘That child had eyes that don’t hesitate to move forward.’

Jis smiled as he recalled Leo’s gaze.

‘Hehe. I’m looking forward to it.’

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