Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 517

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517.

 

The lounge of the Noble Dormitory.

 

Eliza sat in her usual luxurious exclusive chair, legs crossed, trimming her fingernails.

 

Around her, the Summoning Department students from her noble faction were cautiously watching her mood.

 

“Um, Eliza. You haven’t been going out anywhere lately?”

 

One female student from the Summoning Department spoke up carefully.

 

Eliza blew on her nails with a “hoo-” and checked her trimmed fingernails.

 

Seeing Eliza’s reaction, the Summoning Department students wore frustrated expressions.

 

Eliza was the de facto leader of the 2nd Year Summoning Department.

 

Of course, that didn’t mean Eliza was the top student in the Summoning Department.

 

Grade-wise, she was an honor student who competed for 1st and 2nd place with Woreden, but she frequently skipped classes.

 

Her class participation rate was also poor, and she often slept during lessons.

 

She even frequently made the students who followed her run personal errands.

 

Excluding grades, she was unmistakably a delinquent student.

 

Still, the reason she was the leader of the 2nd Year Summoning Department was because Woreden had a strongly individualistic nature.

 

Even if Eliza was irresponsible, she definitely led the Summoning Department students as their leader.

 

The Summoning Department professors also acknowledged Eliza thanks to her excellent grades and such tendencies.

 

And for the past week.

 

Eliza had only stayed in the dormitory, doing nothing at all.

 

She wasn’t attending classes or participating in the Lumeria City reconstruction work.

 

She always had a bored expression, but for the past few days, all expression had disappeared from her face.

 

As a result, the Summoning Department students who followed her felt suffocated to death.

 

‘Why is she acting like this?’

 

‘W-well? Did something happen?’

 

It was when the Summoning Department students were exchanging glances.

 

“How annoying.”

 

Eliza, who had been ignoring her surroundings for days, suddenly spoke up.

 

“What?”

 

“All of you disappear.”

 

“What do you…?”

 

“It’s annoying, so disappear from my sight.”

 

Seeing Eliza speak irritably and with annoyance, the Summoning Department students flinched and then scattered.

 

Although she had tyrannical tendencies, Eliza was generally generous to those who followed her, so her irritable behavior was the first time her faction students had seen such a side of her since enrollment.

 

Left alone in the lounge and silent, Eliza ground her teeth with a “grind-” and stood up from her seat.

 

‘Pathetic.’

 

The reason she was holed up only in the dormitory was because of what happened a week ago.

 

At the gathering of 2nd Year top students, Eliza had felt it.

 

‘I’m the only one who didn’t grow.’

 

Feeling frustrated, Eliza entered her dormitory room.

 

Creak- Click-

 

And she closed the door and flopped face-down on the bed.

 

‘Until before summer vacation started, I never thought I was falling behind anyone among the 2nd years.’

 

Eliza, who had been thinking that far, paused and gave a self-deprecating smile.

 

‘No, there was one person.’

 

There was one person she had been treating as an exception at some point.

 

‘Leo Flobe.’

 

Leo was the first wall Eliza had ever felt in her life.

 

That’s why she was always conscious of him.

 

‘I don’t know about others, but at least not me.’

 

Eliza made an indifferent expression.

 

For Eliza, Leo was a ‘reference point.’

 

‘As a summoner, and also as a hero. The human called Leo Flobe is perfect.’

 

There were no other special emotions beyond that.

 

She absolutely couldn’t tolerate someone being above her, but she had no choice but to acknowledge Leo alone.

 

‘But then…’

 

Eliza’s face twisted horribly.

 

When the Overlord King attacked Lumern.

 

She had ended up watching the backs of her peers whom she considered equals.

 

Until before enrolling in Lumern.

 

Eliza never doubted that she was the best.

 

Indeed, her talent was worthy of being called the best of an era.

 

Now she knew well that she couldn’t be the best due to the immeasurable monster called Leo Flobe.

 

Even so, she had been confident that she at least wasn’t falling behind among her classmates.

 

That confidence of hers had been shattered.

 

‘Limits?’

 

Eliza bit her lips tightly and looked down at her palm.

 

Even if she tried not to be conscious of it, she couldn’t help but be conscious.

 

She had seen countless students who had been arrogant all their lives thinking they were the best, only to fall behind at Lumern.

 

She had mocked them then, but not now.

 

In a situation where everyone else was running forward, wasn’t she the only one sitting down?

 

Wouldn’t she end up falling behind like those she had mocked?

 

In Lumern’s competitive system, Eliza felt fear for the first time.

 

‘It’s my problem, yet I’m taking it out on those around me. I’m ruined too.’

 

It was when Eliza was burying her nose in the pillow with a bitter smile.

 

Swoosh-!

 

She heard the sound of something sliding under her dormitory room door.

 

She slightly raised her upper body and turned her head to see a letter.

 

‘How annoying at a time like this.’

 

Eliza frowned.

 

Although Eliza competed with Duran for having the worst temper among 2nd years, she was still an incredible beauty.

 

She had many followers who admired her aloof nature.

 

Added to that was her position as the heir of the Herginn Family, the greatest summoning noble house in the Northern Continent.

 

She had received about hundreds of love letters.

 

Of course, Eliza had never read any of those love letters.

 

She burned all the letters she received.

 

‘Hmph. If you like me that much, then confess boldly.’

 

She had no interest in confessions made without the courage to see her face and confess.

 

Of course, even if someone boldly confessed to her face, she had no intention of accepting them.

 

A person she had no interest in from the start couldn’t possibly catch her eye.

 

Eliza approached the door and was about to tear up the letter envelope.

 

Then she suddenly paused after checking the name written on the envelope.

 

‘Cal Thomas?’

 

Eliza’s eyes twitched.

 

‘Why did this guy write me a letter?’

 

She snorted, but curiosity also arose.

 

Normally she would have torn it up without mercy, but Eliza was unconsciously opening the envelope and checking its contents.

 

‘I have something to talk about. I’ll be waiting at the dorm training grounds at midnight tonight. Cal Thomas.’

 

“How arrogant?”

 

At the extremely simple content, Eliza made an expression of disbelief.

 

“Funny? Who does he think he is to order me around? He needs to know his place.”

 

Eliza let out her characteristic sneer as she neatly folded the letter and placed it inside the envelope.

 

Click- Click-

 

Swoosh- Eliza threw the letter onto her desk and was about to lie down on her bed when she stopped in front of the full-length mirror in one corner of her room.

 

Glance- Eliza checked her reflection in the mirror and adjusted her hair.

 

For some reason, she felt her gloomy mood lifting slightly.

 

Without realizing it, she began humming softly as she sat at her vanity.

 

And then she smiled- broadly.

 

‘It would be fun to crush them mercilessly.’

 

***

 

“….”

 

Eliza’s face crumpled when she saw who was standing at the meeting place.

 

“I was waiting for you, Eliza.”

 

At Leo’s words, Eliza crossed her arms.

 

“To think someone as important as the Student Council President was waiting for me. I don’t know where to put myself. But wasn’t it Cal Thomas who called me?”

 

“I’m here too!”

 

Cal appeared from behind Leo, giving a thumbs up and grinning playfully.

 

“So the one who has something to say to me wasn’t Cal Thomas, but you, Leo Flobe?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“Hah. I should have just stayed in bed.”

 

Eliza muttered irritably.

 

Looking at such an Eliza, Leo spoke.

 

“It’s important.”

 

At those words, Eliza hesitated for a moment, then snorted.

 

“It better be important enough to call me out at this late hour.”

 

Of course, Eliza knew well that Leo wasn’t the type to talk nonsense, so she understood it was genuinely important.

 

It was just that given Eliza’s personality, she needed to complain to feel satisfied.

 

Looking at such an Eliza, Leo nodded.

 

Cal looked at Eliza and said.

 

“But Eliza, you look especially pretty today?”

 

“I’m the same as always.”

 

Eliza answered indifferently.

 

But unlike usual, her tone was slightly softer.

 

“Full makeup at this dawn hour… I got it! You’re planning to meet some guy after this is over…?”

 

Whirrr-! Crack-!

 

“Guhk? Kekekekekekek!”

 

“Do I look like some promiscuous woman who goes out to meet men at dawn?”

 

“Y-you’re popular, so you might have a date while you’re out…”

 

“I don’t do that sort of thing.”

 

Snap-!

 

“Kkkkkk!”

 

Eliza wrapped her ever-present whip around Cal’s neck and pulled him toward her, then strangled his neck wildly in a fit of hysteria.

 

Watching this scene, Leo said dryly.

 

“You two get along as well as ever.”

 

“Who says we get along?”

 

Eliza answered sharply as she pushed Cal aside.

 

“So? What’s this important story?”

 

“I heard from Cal. He said you’re quite anxious.”

 

“So what? Are you trying to mock me for being stuck in place by myself?”

 

Eliza showed a sharp reaction.

 

From the beginning, Eliza saw Leo as someone she had to catch up to.

 

As such, she inevitably couldn’t accept Leo’s concern or help at face value.

 

Leo looked at the ‘competitive spirit’ in Eliza’s eyes and burst into laughter.

 

“Go ahead, laugh all you want, Leo Flobe.”

 

“That’s not what I meant.”

 

Leo shook his head.

 

“Sometimes I forget that you guys are still kids.”

 

“…That’s a very strange thing to say. I know you have some old-soul aspects, but I’m actually older than you.”

 

At the unexpected comment, Eliza also seemed bewildered and let out a small laugh.

 

Looking at such an Eliza, Leo said.

 

“You’re not particularly lacking compared to the other kids. It’s just that your environment is a bit different.”

 

“….”

 

“Chloe and Avad unknowingly stimulate each other. They have similar aspects and often debate. They’re definitely good competitors.”

 

“There’s also Chelsea. Well, in Chelsea’s case, she’s strongly grinding her teeth saying she ‘can’t lose’ to Selia.”

 

Cal, who had escaped from Eliza’s whip, said while putting his clasped hands behind his head.

 

“Selia and Duran, and Chen Xia also consider each other rivals.”

 

Leo gave examples from the Magic Studies Department and Knight Department.

 

“But you don’t have a competitor.”

 

There was Woreden, but Woreden wasn’t particularly the competitive type.

 

He was simply the type who pursued ‘strength’ and ran straight forward.

 

During their first year enrollment, Eliza had picked fights with him several times, but he had consistently ignored her.

 

“To consider me a rival… you know what I mean, right?”

 

“Kuk!”

 

Eliza gritted her teeth.

 

Looking at such an Eliza, Leo said.

 

“Most importantly, summoners are also slow to develop.”

 

“Are you giving me advice not to be impatient because time will solve everything? What truly grateful advice.”

 

Eliza spoke sarcastically.

 

Looking at such an Eliza, Leo plopped down on a nearby bench and said.

 

“Well, knowing you, it won’t take long to leap over the wall. But rather than just leaping over the wall, wouldn’t this be a good time to learn how to forcibly break through it?”

 

“What do you mean by that?”

 

Leo curled up the corners of his mouth.

 

“How long are you going to make me wait?”

 

At those words, Eliza’s face immediately hardened.

 

She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth.

 

That gaze looking down at her from an impossibly high place.

 

It was the same look Leo had shown before.

 

‘I really hate that attitude of seeming to wait for me!’

 

Sparks flew from Eliza’s eyes.

 

Looking at such an Eliza, Leo said.

 

“Cal worries about you a lot too.”

 

“Cal Thomas does?”

 

Eliza glanced at Cal.

 

Cal shrugged his shoulders.

 

Eliza looked at Cal for a moment, then took a deep breath.

 

“So? How can you help me?”

 

“Are you prepared to do whatever I tell you?”

 

“As long as you don’t make me do anything weird.”

 

“Then.”

 

“Are you prepared to die?”

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