Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 669

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669.

The next morning.

Arga, who had been sleeping in his sleeping bag, instinctively began twitching his nose.

A moment later.

Arga’s eyes snapped open as he let out a strange cry and bolted upright.

“Uwaaaak!”

After letting out the strange cry, Arga wriggled his body to get out of the sleeping bag.

“What’s going on?”

Iliana, who had been sleeping next to Ar, asked with a disheveled face.

“There’s a delicious smell!”

Since starting the exploration, they had been substituting meals with simple foods like jerky and bread.

As such, Ar’s desire for a proper meal was desperate.

“Aren’t you guys going?”

“The Class President said we could sleep as much as we want. Sleep comes first for me.”

Iliana burrowed back into her sleeping bag.

The other female students seemed to feel the same way and had no intention of budging.

During the exploration period, they had moved while minimizing sleep.

Since all the Hero Candidates possessed strong stamina and mental fortitude, they weren’t exhausted from just two days without proper sleep.

Even so, the desire to sleep when you could sleep well was an unavoidable human urge.

“Lazy bunch!”

“Who are you calling lazy, you glutton cat.”

“Leave her be. She’s a beast, after all.”

Driana chimed in with Iliana’s grumbling.

Regardless, Ar went outside the tent.

“Arga is making such a fuss, yet these three sleep just fine.”

Iliana looked curiously at Chelsea, Eliza, and Aina, who were sleeping soundly with their eyes closed in their sleeping bags, then muttered quietly as if seeing an opportunity.

“Chelsea and Eliza. Blockheaded idiots. Personality disasters.”

As soon as those words ended, Chelsea and Eliza extended their hands from within their sleeping bags.

Chelsea’s hand was open while Eliza’s hand was clenched in a fist.

Eliza, who lost at rock-paper-scissors, came out of her sleeping bag with an irritated face and approached Iliana with her fist clenched.

“W-wait! I wasn’t talking about you guys… Aaaaah!”

After punishing Iliana, Eliza returned to her sleeping bag.

Then Arga came back into the tent.

Without warning, he tucked Driana and Iliana under his arms, sleeping bags and all, and went outside the tent.

***

“You beast! Put us down!”

“What kind of behavior is this when we can’t even sleep!”

Despite Driana and Iliana’s protests, Ar didn’t even pretend to listen and dragged the two outside, dumping them on the ground.

“I brought them! Black Rabbit!”

“Yeah, good work. Here, food.”

“Wow!”

Arga smiled brightly and took the bowl of stew that Leo handed her.

“Must be because they’re young? They’re full of energy from the morning.”

“Wow, you cook well.”

“Gasp! Master Dweno! Teacher!”

Driana was startled and hurriedly scrambled out of her sleeping bag.

“Ugh! Class President?!”

Iliana was horrified and crawled back into her sleeping bag.

Driana stuck her hand into Iliana’s sleeping bag, trying to forcibly drag her out.

“What rudeness! In front of Master Dweno and Teacher!”

“Wait! Let me just wipe the drool… Aah! Let go! Hey! Let go! You ignorant dwarf!”

“Ahahahahaha!”

Ennitha held her stomach and laughed at the two girls bickering.

Eventually, looking at the two from her seat, Ennitha made a rectangle with the index fingers and thumbs of both hands, put Iliana inside it, and said.

“Hmm~ Looking at it this way, Iliana, you have quite good proportions? Won’t you be my model?”

“Model? Should I strip right now?”

“Won’t you let go?! You perverted dwarf!”

Iliana was horrified looking at Driana, who was grabbing the hem of her clothes.

Watching this scene, Leo rested his chin on his hand.

‘Did that guy learn his nude model obsession from this elf?’

“Well, it would be nice if you undressed. But if you don’t want to, there’s nothing I can do about it, right?”

Ennitha shook her head.

At Ennitha’s reaction, Leo stared directly at Dweno.

“What? That unpleasant look in your eyes.”

At Dweno’s puzzled question, Leo said.

“Among the dwarves I know, there was a guy who insisted he was an artist and argued loudly about it.”

“So?”

“He talked about art and spouted nonsense about needing nude models… I was wondering if he was actually a pervert.”

“But why are you looking at me?”

“Just because.”

Leo shrugged while looking at Dweno, who was frowning.

“But why did you drag me out?”

“Master Dweno wanted Driana, and the Black Rabbit told me to bring you out.”

“The Class President? Why?”

“It’s nothing special. Let’s eat first, shall we?”

Leo smiled gently and kindly ladled the stew.

Iliana nodded and took the bowl of stew.

“Mmm! This is delicious! It’s exactly the taste I like!”

“I tried making it to suit your taste.”

“Really? Class President! You even remembered my taste preferences! I’m totally moved!”

Iliana jumped around joyfully.

“Want to try this too?”

When he served sausages that had been grilled on skewers into her bowl, Iliana quickly stabbed them with her fork and ate.

Then she cupped her cheeks and smiled happily.

“It’s delicious.”

“Eat plenty.”

“Yeah! Yeah!”

Arga, who had been watching from the side, quietly scooted her bottom away, creating distance from Leo.

‘Suspicious.’

Ar’s eyes narrowed.

Her wild instincts were telling her to get as far away from Leo as possible.

“But you know, Iliana.”

“Yeah! Yeah!”

“When I watched during this exploration, it seemed like Duran caught up to your speed?”

“Ah! That?”

Iliana spoke as if it was nothing while eating her stew.

“Duran is really stubborn, you know? He seemed upset that he lost to me in speed, so he trained like crazy. Not just Duran, but Chelsea and Eliza also seem to be on par with my speed now.”

“Hmm. Didn’t you practice the unique magic Luna made for you?”

“I did, but… to increase the speed of Light-Speed Swift Sword, my body needs to become stronger.”

The unique magic that Luna created and Iliana named.

Since Lightspeed Swift Sword was magic that accelerated the body, the burden placed on the user’s physical form was also great.

In other words, a strong body was absolutely essential to achieve faster speeds.

“So it’s a lack of fundamentals?”

“Yeah! So time will solve everything! I’m still growing!”

Ahahaha! The moment Iliana laughed and stabbed a sausage with her fork with a poke-!

“So basically, you just fooled around during vacation?”

“That’s right! Huh?”

Iliana, who had been answering carefreely, suddenly felt something strange and turned her head.

There was Leo wearing an infinitely kind smile.

‘Did the Class President know how to make such a warm smile?’

Though such a question crossed her mind for a moment, Iliana had naive thoughts.

‘Hehehe. It’s nice that he’s smiling like this! The Class President has moved beyond being a beautiful boy to having a beautiful young man vibe.’

Even seeing an expression that would have made Chelsea turn pale and scream to run away, Iliana was completely oblivious.

‘…Is her crisis detection ability out of order?’

It was when Arga was muttering to himself while breaking out in cold sweat.

“Iliana.”

“Yeah!”

“You need to do some special training with me starting today.”

“Yeah! Yeah? What did you say?”

Iliana’s eyes suddenly widened as she had been answering without thinking.

“The great Progenitor of the Starry Skies was so impressed by your talent that he created unique magic for you.”

The expression disappeared from Leo’s face.

Iliana’s face turned pale.

“But you’re letting that magic rot right now. How can you still call yourself human? This is just pearls before swine. I’ll make you into a proper person.”

“I, I want to be a pig!”

“No. Once you finish eating, we’re starting training immediately.”

“…”

At those words, Iliana trembled and put down her spoon.

It was a trick to delay starting training as long as possible.

“Oh, you’re done eating? Then let’s start…”

“N-not yet!”

Iliana started eating again with a face that looked like she was about to cry.

“And Driana.”

“What is it?”

“I was going to train you too.”

Leo glanced at Dweno.

“I had a little chat with this friend Leo at dawn. So the conclusion I reached is that I’ll be the one to train you.”

“R-really?!”

Driana’s face brightened.

“Yes. From what I heard, this friend was planning to train you to handle powerful flames. I was thinking of teaching you blacksmithing techniques, but for that you also need to be able to handle strong flames. When I heard about it, the training method was similar to mine, so I decided to take you on.”

Driana made a moved expression.

“I’ll work hard!”

Watching Driana answer energetically, Dweno nodded with a satisfied face.

Seeing this, Arga approached Leo.

“What kind of training is Dweno planning to put Driana through?”

“Remember the howling vocalization training that Arron and I made you do?”

“How could I forget that! You put me in water and water-tortured me!”

“Torture, you say. It was proper training. Look at the result. The water knew the answer, didn’t it?”

“Ugh.”

Arga shuddered.

Looking at Ar like that, Leo said.

“It’s the opposite version of that.”

“What! That’s so much easier! It’s unfair!”

Arga got indignant.

Looking at Ar like that, Leo said.

“You were happy, Ar.”

“Huh?”

***

Arga, who had come to observe Driana’s training scene, muttered in a daze.

“…What is this hell?”

Whoooosh-!

“Kyaaaaaaah! It’s too hot! Master Dweno!”

“Endure it! Endure! The more steel endures in hot fire, the stronger it becomes! The body is the same!”

“Aaaaah! I’m going to die like this!”

Dwarves don’t die easily! So don’t come out and endure it!”

Driana was burning inside a large furnace.

Dweno forcibly pushed Driana back in as she tried to jump out of the furnace.

“Now pick up the hammer!”

“How can I pick up a hammer in this situation… Aaaaah!”

Driana’s desperate screams echoed.

‘The opposite of putting someone in water and water-torturing them was putting them in fire and fire-torturing them?’

The current location was where Dweno’s workshop was.

And in the courtyard outside Dweno’s workshop…

“Aaaaah!”

A golem holding a massive greatsword swung the sword toward Iliana at tremendous speed.

Iliana screamed and barely dodged the attack.

“Black Rabbit. What happens if she can’t dodge that?”

“She dies.”

Iliana, wearing shackles with weight magic on her wrists and ankles, was moving frantically to avoid the golem.

Leo shouted toward Iliana.

“Move if you want to live!”

“Hey! Leo Flobe! Just you wait! Hiiiiiek!”

Iliana, who had shouted Leo’s full name unlike usual, dodged the golem’s attack again.

‘That’s hell over there too.’

Ar was dripping with cold sweat as she tried to sneak away from this place.

Because she felt like she would somehow experience hell too if she stayed here.

“Ar.”

Ar was startled by Leo’s voice from behind and slowly turned around.

“Come here.”

Arga cautiously approached Leo while reading the situation.

“Want to take out Brave?”

“Ah…!”

Arga perked up her ears and hurriedly took Brave out from the extradimensional space.

“Dweno.”

“Hm? Why are you calling?”

Dweno turned around.

Leo pointed at Brave and said.

“Could you possibly repair this sword?”

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