Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 602
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602.
A warp gate located halfway up the mountain.
As soon as they exited the entrance, an observation deck appeared where they could see the entire cityscape at a glance.
Chelsea ran to the observation deck and grabbed the railing.
“Wow! This is Retin, the central city of the Resenting Region!”
Chelsea exclaimed in admiration as she looked at the city.
Whoooosh!
The cold winter wind riding the updraft scattered Chelsea’s hair.
“Refreshing!”
Despite the bitter cold winter wind, Chelsea laughed cheerfully.
For Chelsea, who was a wind mage, this winter wind seemed to make her feel rather good.
“La la la~ La~”
A cheerful humming flowed from Chelsea’s lips.
“Hey! Leo! What’s going on here! Why is that annoying Chelsea Rwallin here!”
“We’re spending vacation in the same country anyway, so wouldn’t it be nice to spend it together?”
Selia grabbed Leo and shook him vigorously.
“Even if it’s the same country, do you know how vast our Empire’s territory is?! And what’s so nice about it!”
Chelsea, who heard the conversation, turned her head sharply toward the two.
For a moment, Chelsea and Selia’s gazes met.
Chelsea pulled down her right lower eyelid with her right index finger and stuck out her tongue.
“Do I have to see that sight even during vacation!”
Avad, who was watching Selia show such strong rejection, smiled slightly.
“You two get along well.”
“Do you think this looks like getting along well?!”
Avad just smiled as he watched Selia flare up.
“Miss, please calm down. There are many eyes watching right now.”
Selia flinched at those words and looked around.
The questioning gazes of passengers exiting the warp gate were directed at Selia.
Seeing this, Selia cleared her throat with a “Ahem!” and straightened her clothes.
Selia, who instantly returned to being the perfect young lady of a noble family, spoke to Niel.
“Thank you, Sister Niel.”
“As a knight of Jerdinger and as Miss’s escort knight, supporting Miss is only natural.”
Niel, who was dressed in light armor unlike Selia, thumped her chest with her fist.
“The Roda family always thinks of Jerdinger’s honor.”
Selia smiled at that reliable appearance.
Selia and Niel weren’t simply in a lord-retainer relationship, but had been close like real sisters since childhood.
Although Selia pursued perfection in everything, she often showed gaps when she got excited like just before.
Whenever that happened, Niel would take care of Selia like an older sister from beside her.
‘It’s reassuring to be with Sister Niel.’
“Young Master Avad. I’ve bought a travel guide booklet sold here at the warp gate.”
“Huh? Marsel Rugia? Why are you here?”
“As a mage of Rwallin, supporting Young Master Avad and Miss Chelsea is my duty, isn’t it?”
“How nice of you to like duties! What are you doing coming to a place like this!”
“Hmph. This will be Young Master Leo’s territory.”
“I haven’t understood this from before, but why do you call Young Master Leo ‘Young Master Leo’! That person is a direct descendant of Jerdinger!”
“Before that, he’s the heir of the Flobe Family! Young Master Avad and Miss Chelsea’s best friend! That alone seems sufficient reason for me to call him Young Master, doesn’t it?”
“How ridiculous!”
Niel and Marcell began arguing with their foreheads pressed together.
The commotion was incomparably larger than the disturbance Selia had caused earlier, and all eyes around them were drawn at once.
“Oh my? Why are they fighting?”
“Those family crests are… Jerdinger and Rwallin, it seems.”
“Ah, the two renowned hero families of Rodren?”
“I heard their relationship wasn’t good, and it really doesn’t seem good.”
“I think the female knight will win?”
“No, won’t the male mage win?”
People coming and going through the warp gate began murmuring.
As attention was drawn instantly, Selia covered her face with her hands as if embarrassed, and Avad smiled awkwardly.
At this point, it would be difficult for Selia and Avad to stop them.
“Leo, try to stop them.”
Selia spoke urgently in a small voice, but there was no answer.
“Leo?”
Selia removed her face from her palms and glanced to the side.
Leo, who had been there just moments before, was nowhere to be seen.
“Se, Miss Selia. If you’re looking for Young Master Leo, he’s over there…”
Martina, who had come along to serve Leo, carefully pointed in one direction.
There, Leo was looking at the scenery of Retin from the observation deck together with Chelsea.
“Brother Leo, why do you bother putting in coins to use binoculars? You could easily solve it with magic.”
“I think this has its own charm.”
“Is that so?”
Selia felt anger rising at their appearance of drawing a line with this side as if they had nothing to do with them at all.
“You two! Try to stop them!”
Selia walked toward the two and spoke through gritted teeth.
“Who are you? Do you know Brother Leo?”
“I’ve never seen this person before?”
When Leo and Chelsea treated her as if she were some strange person, Selia’s red eyes flashed.
Seeing that, Leo muttered to himself.
‘If I tease her any more, she’ll explode.’
Chelsea seemed to feel it too and clicked her tongue softly.
“I don’t want to get involved in those two fighting.”
“What?”
“You don’t know yet?”
It was when Chelsea’s face became slightly clouded.
“Miss Chelsea is much prettier than Selia Jerdinger!”
“Don’t be ridiculous! Miss Selia is prettier! Men prefer beautiful yet cool! Dignified types like Miss Selia!”
“You’re not even a man, yet you talk so much! Miss Chelsea is like a delicate single flower…”
“Miss Selia is like a rose too!”
At the two’s shouting, Selia’s mouth gaped open.
“Wh, what is that?”
“Those two! Whenever they fight, they always drag us into it!”
Chelsea also screamed.
Chelsea had once encountered Niel while walking with Marcell at the Academy last time.
The two inevitably got into an argument and growled at each other, then at some point began bragging about Selia, Chelsea, and Avad, fighting over who was more amazing.
Both were in different departments and were such bitter enemies that they avoided each other, so actual confrontations were rare to see, but it was already famous entertainment among the upperclassmen.
Naturally, from Chelsea’s perspective, it was an incident so embarrassing she wanted to die on the spot.
Watching those two, Selia recalled the incomprehensible things seniors would sometimes say.
‘Oh my~ A single rose.’
‘The world’s strongest young lady is passing by.’
“That was all because of that?!”
“If Miss Selia put her mind to it, seducing your young master would be nothing!”
“Ridiculous! Young Master Avad could easily make your miss…”
“Kyaaaaaaaaah!”
Selia, her face completely red, let out a scream and ran at full speed toward Niel.
Even Avad, who usually showed composure in all matters, seemed flustered this time as he rushed to Marcell and covered his mouth.
Just then, Leo’s Slayer Knights approached.
“Young Master. What should we do?”
When Austin asked cautiously, Leo smiled slightly.
“I don’t know those people over there.”
“Me neither.”
Chelsea agreed with Leo’s words.
At those words, Carin carefully spoke up.
“Young Master.”
“What?”
“Can we pretend to be part of your group too?”
At that, Leo gestured toward the back with his chin.
“Stay close.”
“Yes.”
At his words, Leo’s knights quietly positioned themselves behind Leo.
Seeing this, Chelsea was impressed.
“Quick situational judgment.”
“We learned through Young Master Leo that you need to know which side to stand on.”
At Carin’s words, the other knights nodded.
Watching this scene, Chelsea shook her head.
***
“We’re sorry! Miss Selia!”
“We’re sorry! Young Master Avad!”
Niel and Marcell each bowed 90 degrees to their respective masters.
Selia looked at Niel and shook her head with an awkward smile.
“It’s okay, Sister Niel. I do that with Chelsea often too, don’t I?”
“You know we’ve fought a lot since we were kids too, right? So you don’t need to feel too sorry. Marcell.”
Avad also comforted Marcell.
Chelsea, who had been watching the scene intently, said casually.
“Still, we don’t embarrass our family to this extent.”
At those words, the two people’s shoulders drooped.
Selia and Avad glared at Chelsea.
Flustered by this, Chelsea quickly hid behind Leo and peeked out only her head.
The group was currently at a cafe not far from the Warp Gate to warm themselves up.
No matter how well-trained knights and mages were through practice, there was nothing good about being exposed to cold wind on a winter day.
Especially since the Lesentung region was geographically close to the northern part of the continent, which could be called a land of extreme cold.
Avad, who was warming himself with a hot drink, asked.
“Come to think of it, Selia. I heard that graduated seniors are at the Jerdinger family?”
“Yes. Senior Jamua, Senior Torua, and Senior Ulta are here.”
“It would have been nice to greet them.”
“They’re not at the family estate anyway since they went to suppress the rebels with Brother Ris.”
Leo and Selia had come to Lesentung without hearing news of the graduated seniors including Ris.
“Brother Leo. Are you planning to go straight to Letin’s government office like this?”
Chelsea asked while eating ice cream.
The people from the Rwallin family had come here at Leo’s invitation.
As such, they had no choice but to follow wherever Leo went.
“Well.”
Leo was flipping through a guidebook for sale to travelers.
Regas had perfectly prepared documents that could prove Leo was the rightful owner of the Lesentung region.
Not only the land deeds for the Lesentung region, but also a certificate proving that Leo’s grandmother, Naila Jerdinger, was the legitimate heir of the Tungken Kingdom.
In addition to that, even artifacts that could prove it.
This place, Letin, was once the capital of Tungken long ago.
Letin’s government office was the central government that extended administrative power throughout the entire Lesentung region.
And Sys Sigma, the supreme authority here, was the commander of the Tusen Knights.
“But no matter how perfect the documents are, would the Tusen Knights willingly hand over the entire region to Brother Leo?”
Decades had already passed since Tungken’s destruction.
Many people had already forgotten the country called Tungken.
Even the people living in this land now found the name Tungken unfamiliar.
It was questionable whether they would readily acclaim someone as king just because the old royal family returned to such a place.
“Grandfather said that Tungken’s legacy in Letin here can only be retrieved by those who are qualified. He said the Tusen Knights absolutely need that legacy to gain true power.”
“Ah. But what is that legacy?”
“The blessing of Ista, the Great Fire Fairy and Fairy of Purification.”
“Come to think of it, didn’t they say Tungken’s founding king was a covenant partner of the Fairy of Purification?”
Letin was the birthplace of Ista, the Great Fire Fairy and Fairy of Purification of this era, and was once an active volcano long ago.
However, the Giant King of Tartaros attacked this place to destroy the Fairy of Purification.
At that time, Tungken’s founding king fought alongside as Ista’s covenant partner.
In that process, all the volcano’s power was drawn upon, and Letin became an extinct volcano.
The Giant King ultimately failed to achieve his goal and retreated.
“Tungken’s founding king, who had overexerted his power in that battle, passed away, and Ista gave blessings to the Tungken royal family in gratitude for that time, right?”
Selia crossed her arms.
Originally, the Tusen Knights were a powerful knight order that commanded the entire continent.
But by now, their power had weakened to the point where they could barely manage just the Lesentung region.
The reason was the absence of the Tungsen royal family.
Chelsea asked Selia.
“But is the qualification based on bloodline?”
“Since it’s a Great Fairy, bloodline alone would be difficult to gain qualification. There must be a test.”
“Brother Leo would easily pass any test!”
Chelsea snorted with a “Hehe!”
If it was Leo, the Hero of the Beginning, even a Great Fairy grandfather would have no choice but to acknowledge him.
Hearing Chelsea’s words, Ati muttered so only Leo could hear.
-Ista is famous for having a nasty temperament, so it won’t be easy, Master.
Having been with the founding of the Rodren Empire, Ati was well aware of the Great Fairy established in the neighboring region.
-If that fairy doesn’t like Leo, things could get a bit troublesome.
When Elsi muttered worriedly, Larel, the oldest among the existing Great Fairies, snorted.
-Who does he think he is to reject Lord Leo? If he rejects, just twist his wrist and that’s it.
-Tw-twist his wrist…! Larel! Can you do that to me? Haah! Haah!
Ati showed an intense reaction to those radical words.
Then Leo, who had been reading the guidebook, spoke up.
“This city is famous for hot springs.”
At the sudden muttering, Selia tilted her head.
“Of course. That’s why this city has a high reputation as a tourist city.”
Leo raised his head and glanced to the right.
Jerdinger’s attendants who were there to escort Leo and Selia were sitting there.
Leo turned his eyes and this time looked to the left.
Similarly, there were people from Rwallin there to escort Chelsea and Avad.
Leo was sitting right in the middle of them.
“Let’s go to the government office tomorrow.”
“What? Then what are we doing first?”
Leo smiled slightly as he looked at Selia, who was making a puzzled expression.
“Sightseeing.”
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