Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 57

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57

Leo looked at the room key in his hand and thought.

‘Even so, isn’t giving a granddaughter’s room key to an outsider man a bit much?’

According to Roon, she had locked even the door and was holed up inside.

‘Rehabilitating a reclusive loner.’

He scratched his head vigorously.

‘Would seeing me be stimulating for her?’

Lumern and Seirun were rival schools.

Even so, would confronting a gloomy elf who had given up on competition with Lumern’s first-year representative really be stimulating?

‘Well, whatever. If it doesn’t work, it’s not like there’s any disadvantage.’

Leo arrived in front of the room Roon had mentioned with a light heart.

And he knocked.

After all, he couldn’t just barge into a girl’s room, could he?

But as expected, there was no response to his knocking.

Next, he tried turning the doorknob, but it was locked as expected.

Leo opened the door with the key he was holding and entered.

The state of the room was quite a sight.

Snack bags were rolling around on the floor, and changed clothes were roughly shoved into corners.

Among the scattered clothes, underwear was also blatantly visible.

If Leo had been an ordinary teenage boy, it would have been quite a stimulating scene, but Leo’s sensibilities weren’t those of a teenager.

In other words, to Leo’s eyes, this place was nothing more or less than a pigsty.

However, there was one uniquely clean area.

It was the photos that occupied an entire wall of the room.

‘Risinass, Luna, Arron, Dweno?’

The photos were of his companions who were now called the Great Heroes.

To each race, the Great Heroes were proud figures and the most popular heroic tales.

Naturally, there were many related products.

‘I knew there were kids who collected these things, but this is a bit extremely fanatical, isn’t it?’

Leo, who had been narrowing his eyes, discovered another clean thing.

It was a single school uniform hanging neatly in the wardrobe.

‘Is that Seirun’s uniform?’

“Grandfather. Isn’t it too much to just enter your grown granddaughter’s room like this?”

At that moment, something that had been covered with a blanket on the bed wriggled and poked out its face.

And it made eye contact with Leo.

“Hiiiiik! Wh-who are you!?”

The elf girl who saw a stranger was startled and rolled off onto the floor, blanket and all.

And seeing Leo’s ears, her eyes widened in surprise.

“Hello. I’m Leo Flobe.”

Despite Leo’s introduction, the girl just remained frozen.

As he watched such a girl, she suddenly came to her senses with a gasp and asked with a very flustered face.

“H-how did a human come here?”

A human boy who shouldn’t be in elf territory had suddenly entered her room, so it couldn’t help but be shocking.

She almost wondered if she was dreaming right now.

At the girl’s question, Leo smiled gently.

“I came to talk with you at your grandfather’s request.”

“G-grandfather did?”

Eiran, who had been flustered, soon emerged from the blanket she was covered with and sat up.

“F-first, please sit down.”

And she offered Leo the guest sofa in one corner of the room.

The elf girl in pajamas approached the tea set arranged in one part of the room.

Personally brewing and serving tea to guests was part of elf culture.

As she was about to brew tea, she saw the clothes scattered here and there in the room and her face turned bright red.

And she hurriedly shoved them into a corner, covered them with a blanket, then prepared tea and brought it to Leo.

“I-I’m Eiran Ersarr.”

The reclusive loner elf with disheveled long silver hair and clear blue eyes, Eiran, introduced herself hesitantly.

“You said you’re grandfather’s guest, but how did a human come to Elsalvechia…?”

Looking at Eiran who asked with a puzzled face, Leo sipped his tea and answered.

“I’m a student at Lumern. I came to Elsalvechia for a school trip.”

“Lumern?”

Eiran was surprised.

“Roon said his granddaughter was a Seirun student, so meeting would be helpful to both of us, which is why I came to meet you.”

The reality was a plan to stimulate the reclusive loner Eiran, but he couldn’t say that directly.

Eiran swallowed dry saliva and looked at Leo.

‘A student from Lumern, the human hero academy.’

This was the first human she’d seen, and not only was he her age, but he was also attending a hero academy just like her.

That alone made Eiran feel considerable curiosity about Leo.

‘A-a boy I’m seeing for the first time is in my room…!’

The situation of a peer boy visiting her room was quite stimulating for an adolescent girl.

Most of all, this was the first time Eiran had a friend visit her room.

In fact, she was introverted and didn’t have many friends.

‘Snow-white hair and pretty ruby-like eyes.’

Eiran, who had been examining Leo’s face closely, suddenly made eye contact with Leo and blushed slightly.

Meanwhile, Leo was wondering what to talk about with Eiran.

After thinking for a moment, Leo pointed to one side of the room.

“You like the Great Heroes?”

“Yes! I-I like them very much!”

Eiran said, clenching both hands tightly.

“They’re respectable people who saved the world! I fell in love with them after reading fairy tales about the Great Heroes when I was young! So collecting things related to them is my hobby!”

Eiran, who had been introverted, was now sparkling with excitement.

“Do you have any favorite episodes related to the Great Heroes, Leo?”

“The Battle of Darnos.”

“You mean the battle where they defeated Tiberca, the legion commander of Tartaros? The first battle the Great Heroes fought as companions!”

It was an episode that wasn’t recorded in Hero Record but only remained in literature.

“Do you also know where they defeated legion commander Zirga’s forces?”

“Edvellic. The place where Luna first tested star magic.”

“That’s right! Usually people don’t know records that are only in literature!”

‘Because I experienced it all myself.’

Leo smiled subtly.

Having met someone she could communicate well with, Eiran had forgotten her nervousness and her excitement had risen.

Then she suddenly came to her senses with a gasp.

“I-I think I’ve only asked you useless questions as a guest.”

“No. If the Great Heroes knew there was someone like you, wouldn’t they be incredibly happy?”

‘Actually, except for Arron, they were guys who liked being worshipped, so they’d be delighted.’

Hearing Leo’s words, Eiran showed an even brighter expression.

After that, Eiran introduced her collection.

Since the appearance of the Great Heroes known in this era was all based on their appearance recorded in Hero Record, the friends depicted in Eiran’s collection looked as vivid as they had in life.

Seeing that appearance, memories from that time came flooding back into Leo’s mind.

“This is something I particularly treasure. It’s supposed to be how the Great Heroes looked before departing on their final expedition!”

“That’s right. It really looks exactly the same.”

“Huh?”

Eiran hesitated.

“Leo, you speak as if you’ve seen it firsthand.”

Leo answered the sharp question.

“Human society has things like this too. I meant it’s the same thing.”

“I see!”

The innocent girl was easily convinced.

Leo smiled bitterly as he looked at the drawings of his friends on the desk.

“I’ve never shown my collection to anyone else, but this is really enjoyable.”

Eiran, whose gloomy appearance had disappeared and was now smiling brightly, spoke carefully.

“This is just my opinion, but… while four Great Heroes have been historically confirmed, I think there might have been a fifth who actually existed… What do you think, Leo?”

“You mean Kail?”

“Yes. Others laugh at it as delusion, but… it’s not just that only Hero Record’s records remain. There are many literary records about Kail left behind.”

Eiran’s face reddened as she said this.

“I get along so well with Leo that I ended up saying strange things without realizing it…”

“I think the same way.”

“What?”

“I also think Kail actually existed. I don’t collect things like this, but I’m thinking of doing club activities at school to research Kail’s traces.”

He’d been too busy with various things to pay attention, but he planned to start club activities once he returned to school.

“Oh, that’s why! So that’s how you knew so much about the Great Heroes.”

Eiran clasped her hands together in admiration.

She thought she had met someone with similar hobbies.

Leo looked at Eiran, whose wariness had disappeared, with a puzzled expression.

‘She doesn’t seem like the type to refuse to attend school?’

Seirun also had the same dormitory system as Lumern.

Leaving school and coming home in the middle of the semester was a serious matter.

Roon had Leo meet Eiran today for the first time because she could face expulsion if she didn’t return soon.

‘At first I thought she might be at a level where she couldn’t talk to other people at all… but while she’s introverted and passive, this level seems fine?’

Moreover, didn’t she have the admirable quality of believing in the possibility of Kail’s existence?

‘She’s so cute and admirable that I can’t believe she’s a descendant of that arrogant Berkia.’

“Actually, Roon is very worried that you won’t go to school.”

“Ah…”

Eiran’s face rapidly darkened.

“According to Roon, you’re an excellent student with very good grades… What’s the reason you won’t go to school?”

Roon had said it was because there was one student she could never surpass.

But from Leo’s perspective, it didn’t seem like that was the case.

When the topic of school came up, Eiran’s face rapidly darkened.

“Se, Seirun doesn’t seem like a place that suits me.”

“Why?”

“All the students at Seirun are incredible hard workers… and they’re people with amazing passion to reach higher. And they’re people who seriously work hard to become heroes. There wasn’t a single person like me who dreams of being a hero with such a light heart.”

Leo crossed his arms as he looked at Eiran, who had drooped even her ears.

“Wanting to become a hero with a light heart…”

‘Elves definitely have subtly different sensibilities from humans.’

Elves’ tendencies value order.

As such, they plan their futures thoroughly and systematically.

‘There are humans like that too, but for elves it’s almost like a racial characteristic. But refusing to attend school just for that reason is strange.’

Leo tilted his head as he looked at Eiran’s shadowed face.

‘Did she hear something strange from someone?’

He thought she might have heard hurtful words from others and had her spirit broken.

Leo glanced at Eiran’s uniform.

‘But keeping her uniform so preciously means she hasn’t given up her attachment yet, right?’

Leo smiled slightly.

“Right now in Berkia, it’s not just me but our entire class that’s here.”

“What?”

“I told you we came on a school trip. If they heard about you, I think they’d really want to meet you.”

At those words, Eiran hurriedly hid behind the sofa.

“Are, are you going to take me with you? I, I don’t want to leave my room!”

“I’m not such a rude person.”

“At, at school they said all humans are rude… Ah! No! I don’t mean Leo is like that!”

Eiran frantically waved both hands.

Leo chuckled at the sight and stood up from his seat.

“We’ll be staying in Berkia for ten days. If you’re interested, our homeroom professor and associate professor are at the manor, so come visit our dormitory.”

“…”

Eiran quietly averted her eyes.

It seemed unlikely that would happen.

“Among my classmates, there’s a girl named Chelsea who collects things like this. She’s missing a lot of what you have.”

“…! A Great Heroes collection made in human society!”

Eiran’s eyes widened as she looked tempted.

“I’m sure you two would get along well.”

Leo looked out the window.

The sun was already setting.

They had talked for quite a long time about the Great Heroes.

“I’ll go since it’s getting late.”

“Ah! I, so… Leo.”

“Yeah?”

“Ah. Please go safely.”

“See you again.”

Leo smiled and left the room.

“Ah…”

Looking at the room Leo had left, Eiran let out a sigh filled with regret.

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