Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 50

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50

Leo and Chloe, who had cleared the Heroes’ World and returned, were immediately transferred to the infirmary.

Leo had a fractured left arm, burns all over his body, and cracks in various bones.

In Chloe’s case, she suffered from exhaustion due to extreme mana depletion.

The prescription from the infirmary was absolute rest.

As a result, both of them were hospitalized in the infirmary.

The next morning.

Chloe, who had overslept, looked at the mana replenishment IV drip that the healer had placed on her left wrist the night before and said.

“It doesn’t seem serious enough to prohibit even visits.”

The two were in a situation where even visits were prohibited.

“It’s probably not just because of the injuries.”

Leo, with healing patches on his face, said as he sat on the sofa in one corner of the spacious double room.

“I suppose so.”

Chloe’s face darkened.

Even if Leo didn’t know, Chloe still had to be investigated by Lumern.

‘What will I tell my family if I get expelled?’

The Muller Family had a very narrow standing in the North Mage Tower.

The family didn’t have a long history, nor did it have any outstanding mages.

It was just an ordinary magic family that could be found anywhere.

However, because of Chloe, who entered as valedictorian, they came to be in a position that drew attention from the North Mage Tower.

But if they were to bear the disgrace of expulsion, their treatment would definitely become worse than before.

Moreover, even if she didn’t get expelled, it would still be a problem.

The Muller Family was poor.

That’s why she had planned to live her school life by receiving scholarships.

‘But since I did wrong, I have to take responsibility!’

‘She’s thinking about something.’

Leo rested his chin on his hand and smiled slightly as he watched Chloe clench her fists with a determined expression.

‘Kids that age really do grow up fast.’

While thinking that, Leo recalled what had happened yesterday.

‘They said there has never been a recorded instance of Hero Record pages going berserk in all of history.’

But yesterday, a great upheaval had occurred.

Even Leo couldn’t understand the reason.

‘Hero Record didn’t exist in the era I lived in.’

But he could make a guess.

‘What if the magic book Chloe had affected Hero Record?’

Erebos was also a divine being, strictly speaking.

‘If Demon Artifacts can influence Hero Record… wouldn’t that be connected to my Hero Record disappearing?’

The demons still remembered and hated Leo.

There was no law saying they hadn’t been secretly influencing Hero Record like this.

‘The destruction of Hero Record itself might be connected to Tartaros.’

Leo let out a light sigh and discovered chess in the table drawer.

‘Let me organize my thoughts for now.’

“Chloe. Do you know how to play chess? I’m bored, want to play this?”

“Sure, okay.”

Rustle- Chloe got down from the bed and sat in front of Leo.

Chess began and the two started moving their pieces.

Clack! Clack! Clack!

Leo, whose moves were blocked, crossed his arms and clicked his tongue.

‘She plays well.’

Though the rules were slightly different from now, chess existed in his previous life too.

Chess was Risinass’s favorite game, so they often played together.

“Checkmate.”

At Chloe’s declaration, Leo moved his king.

Chloe smiled as she pursued the king.

‘It’s been really long since I played like this.’

After the beginning of the semester, she had been devoted only to studying day and night with the single-minded determination to catch up to Leo.

‘I can play to my heart’s content with Leo while we’re in the infirmary.’

Chloe paused after thinking that far.

‘Wait. Come to think of it, I’m sharing the same room with Leo right now?’

When she was hospitalized, she was too out of it to pay attention, but thinking about it now made her face feel hot for no reason.

“Aren’t you going to move?”

“Huh? Oh? Yes!”

Chloe, flustered and with her voice pitch rising, hurriedly moved her piece.

Shortly after, Leo was caught in a dead end and the game ended.

“Ah-! That was fun!”

Chloe stretched and smiled brightly when her stomach made a growling sound!

“No, no! I mean, this is! Because I’m hungry!”

“Come to think of it, you haven’t eaten anything since yesterday, right? Isn’t this too harsh for kids in their growth period?”

Leo grumbled in response to Chloe, who spoke urgently with a face red as a beet.

Before they knew it, it was lunchtime.

Knock knock-!

At perfect timing, there was a knocking sound and the hospital room door opened.

Chloe was startled and straightened her posture upon seeing the visitor’s face.

“P-Principal!”

“Haha! Good to see you! Student Leo! Student Chloe! Did you rest well last night?”

Kalian approached the two with a good-natured smile.

“I-It’s an honor to meet you! I’m Chloe Muller from Class 1, first year!”

“Haha! Don’t be so nervous. I just came because I have a few things to ask!”

‘This person is the Sword Saint. One of the greatest heroes of this era.’

Leo’s eyes lit up.

Leo and Chloe sat in front of Kalian.

“First, I want to apologize to both of you. Even though it was an unpredictable situation, the fact that we put you in danger due to the occurrence of the Hero Dungeon. As the principal, I apologize.”

Kalian, who had started speaking, bowed his head.

Chloe hurriedly waved her hands.

“It’s okay, Principal. The school couldn’t help the situation either, right?”

“Thank you for thinking that way. Now let me get to the main point.”

Kalian raised his head and made a solemn expression.

Chloe, overwhelmed by his presence, closed her mouth.

“First, Student Chloe. I have something I want to ask you. I’d like you to show me the magic book you purchased in the back alleys of Lumeria City. I heard from Professor Sedjen and Professor Ren that you’ve been carrying that magic book around for several months.”

Chloe drew in a breath.

Leo, who was beside her, asked.

“Why do you want to see that?”

“There’s nothing to hide from Student Leo. The place where Student Riu purchased the summoning catalyst is the same place where Student Chloe bought her magic book.”

“So they had the same source after all.”

“After all? What do you mean by that?”

“That magic book was a Demon Artifact.”

Kalian’s face became serious.

“Could you tell me in detail what happened in the Heroes’ World?”

Leo began his story.

After hearing the whole story, Kalian narrowed his eyes.

“Are you saying the Demon Artifact affected the Heroes’ World?”

“Since the Hero Dungeon normalized immediately after we eliminated the Demon Artifact, I’d say the probability is quite high for now.”

Kalian stroked his beard.

“Then the second question. It’s about the items you two brought from the Hero Dungeon yesterday.”

“Items we brought from the Hero Dungeon? I thought we couldn’t bring anything from the Heroes’ World except for conquest rewards?”

Chloe asked with a puzzled expression.

No matter how real it seemed, the Heroes’ World was ultimately fake.

Whatever items you obtained would all disappear when you returned to reality after conquest.

“It seems Student Chloe wasn’t aware. Yesterday, Student Leo submitted five items. They were relics of the Allia Party members.”

Hearing Kalian’s words, Leo fell into thought.

‘Did I receive conquest rewards again, only me?’

This was Leo’s second time conquering the Heroes’ World.

Coincidentally, both times broke the rules of [No conquest rewards exist in the Heroes’ World of the living] and [Rewards related to the owner of the Heroes’ World].

This time, since it was a Hero Dungeon, he thought Chloe might have received rewards too, but she hadn’t.

‘I don’t know why the rules keep breaking only for me, but it wouldn’t be good if this became known.’

If it became known that he could obtain conquest rewards from any world without fail, he would definitely get entangled in troublesome matters.

“Those were conquest rewards.”

“Conquest rewards? You shouldn’t be able to receive rewards from the Heroes’ World of the living, though?”

“Yes. But yesterday’s Heroes’ World was a Hero Dungeon, wasn’t it? Perhaps an abnormal situation occurred.”

Leo decided to use yesterday’s incident to get out of this situation.

“What about Student Chloe not receiving conquest rewards?”

“That’s probably because Leo contributed the most to the conquest, isn’t it?”

Chloe said.

It was true that reward availability differed based on conquest contribution.

“I see.”

Kalian nodded.

“Understood. Then let me say one last thing.”

Kalian made a serious expression.

“Keep quiet about the Demon Artifact.”

“Excuse me?”

“Miss Chloe. Regarding you, I’ll speak separately with Professor Sedjen, your supervising professor, and Professor Ren from the Magic Studies Department. Appropriate measures will be taken as well. But beyond that, keep quiet.”

“Wh-why?”

“You might not understand well since you’re still young, but.”

Kalian smiled and stood up from his seat.

“Enemies aren’t only outside.”

Leaving the two behind, Kalian walked toward the hospital room door.

“Take good care of yourselves and rest well during the exam period. You’ll be able to be discharged after that.”

Kalian, who was chuckling as he opened the door, paused and said,

“Come to think of it, I forgot to tell you the practical exam score results.”

Kalian turned to look at the two and smiled.

“Congratulations! You’ve become the first students in Lumern’s history to exceed the Heroes’ World mission achievement rate among first-years.”

Chloe’s eyes widened and Leo chuckled while crossing his arms.

“I’ll be looking forward to your future activities.”

Creak-! Click.

“Leo! Mission over-achievement! First in Lumern’s history!”

Chloe, who had made her mark in Lumern’s history, cheered with joy.

Watching such Chloe, Leo smiled.

***

“Why do we have to take classes right after exam period ends? This damn school has no humanity! No humanity!”

Cal grumbled as if disgusted.

“Do you hate taking classes that much?”

“Hey! Chelsea! Humanly speaking, who would want to take classes after exams are over!”

“You hate taking classes regardless of exams anyway.”

As the two bickered while heading to the Magic Hall,

“Did you hear that story? About Chloe.”

“I heard. That the unique magic she presented wasn’t hers?”

“Yeah. She confessed with her own mouth. So her practical exam was scored as 0 points and she’s last place in the Magic Studies Department exam?”

“Hehe! She was acting all high and mighty, serves her right.”

A group of Magic Studies Department students could be seen walking by, giggling.

Seeing this, Cal frowned.

“Disgusting bastards. Look how they’re switching sides as if nothing happened, when they used to cling to Chloe.”

“Stupid kids are always like that.”

“Still, I’m worried about Chloe. She’s surprisingly mentally fragile.”

Cal scratched his head roughly.

Then someone sitting on a bench in the Magic Hall garden stretched out their foot.

The male student at the front of the group gossiping about Chloe tripped over the foot and fell.

“Ugh! Which bastard! Do you want to die…!”

“Ah, sorry. Were you passing by? Watch where you’re going.”

“L-Leo Flobe?”

Leo, who stood up from his seat, spoke with a face that showed no remorse at all.

“Are you picking a fight with us right now?”

“Why? You guys go around talking behind my back, but I can’t pick fights with you? And what if I am picking a fight?”

Looking at the flustered male student, Leo curled up the corners of his mouth.

“If you don’t like it, why don’t you duel with me or something?”

“Urk?!”

Until before midterms, Leo had a strong reputation as a theorist.

But after midterms, it became known among students that he was a top-class powerhouse.

Knight Studies, Magic Studies, Summoning Studies.

It was safe to say they had no chance of beating Leo through dueling in any subject.

“If you pick fights like this, we’ll tell Professor Ren!”

But when there are many mouths, voices get louder too.

One female student in the group got angry.

But Leo smiled leisurely.

“That works out well. Professor Ren was just looking for you guys.”

“Wh-what?”

“He said he had something to ask you about your assignments? You should hurry and go.”

Their faces turned pale.

Since they had done their assignments by clinging to Chloe, it would be big trouble if he asked about that.

“Damn! Cowardly bastard!”

“Just you wait.”

They spat out curses and hurriedly ran to the Magic Hall.

Watching their retreating figures, Leo chuckled.

“Acting all tough.”

“Leo oppa! You’re discharged!”

Chelsea approached with a bright smile.

Cal, with his hands clasped behind his head, grinned.

“Nice! Now that Leo’s discharged too, should we skip class today? We’re obviously just going to review theory without any progress anyway… Ow ow ow ow!”

“The person who ranked second from the bottom in Magic Studies Department scores wants to skip class? What kind of nerve is that?”

“Ch-Chloe?”

Chloe pulled Cal’s ear.

“This won’t do. Starting today, let’s attend classes together in the very front row.”

“The very front? No way! I don’t want to feel that agony from the beginning of the semester again!”

Watching Cal scream in protest, Chelsea giggled and then smiled brightly at Leo.

“Leo oppa, congratulations on being discharged.”

At those words, Leo smiled and gently patted Chelsea’s head.

Chloe, who turned to look at that scene, muttered to herself.

‘Let’s work hard. So I won’t be ashamed in front of Leo, who gave me courage back then.’

Cal, who had been screaming, looked at that scene and asked.

“Your face looks much more relaxed now. Are you feeling better?”

“Thanks to you. Thank you for caring, Cal.”

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