Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 67

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67

That evening.

While the Lumern students were having dinner at the dormitory, a visitor came to see them.

“Chelsea! How can you eat this stuff!”

“Got a problem with my cooking?”

“Cooking? You call this cooking? Stop insulting the art of cooking, will you?”

“What? You’re all dead today!”

“Hey hey! Run! She’s using magic!”

“I’m telling Professor Hallind everything!”

“Class president! Can’t you just take cooking duty? Your cooking was the most delicious among all of us!”

“Yesterday I secretly brought some party food from Seirun.”

Before opening the door, noisy commotion could be heard from inside the dormitory.

Since the theme of this school trip was self-sufficiency, students were responsible for every meal.

Of course, since they had all lived sheltered lives or had no connection to cooking, there was no way proper food would come out.

Thanks to this, every mealtime at Lumern was a continuous series of chaos like this.

At the sound of the students’ disgraceful behavior, Sena covered her face and turned her head, while Hallind let out a deep sigh.

“Haha! The students are full of energy!”

Only Roon showed a good-natured smile.

“I-I’ll go in first and calm them down.”

Sena smiled awkwardly and hurried inside.

After a moment of silence, Sena opened the door.

The entire class was eating quietly and elegantly as if nothing had happened.

“Good to see you all.”

“Hello, Council Chairman Roon!”

The Class 5 students greeted him politely in unison.

Of course, they didn’t forget to keep glancing at Hallind while doing so.

“Haha. I hope I’m not interrupting your meal. I came to see you all because there’s an announcement.”

“An announcement?”

Cal made a puzzled expression.

“That’s right. You all know about it. The fact that numerous undead, including Death Knights, have appeared in Fairy Forest.”

At those words, everyone made serious expressions.

“So there was a meeting at the council. I came to inform you all of the results of that meeting.”

The Class 5 students looked at each other with puzzled expressions.

“The Elsalbeckia Council formally proposes this investigation request to Seirun and Lumern. Please join forces with Seirun to investigate the anomalous situation in Fairy Forest.”

Everyone looked surprised upon hearing this.

“Of course, it would be dangerous for you all alone since you still lack experience. So we’ve put in a request to Seirun. You’ll be teamed up with Seirun’s upperclassmen to investigate the anomalous situation.”

“Does that mean it’s an official request?”

“That’s right.”

An official request.

Lumern first-years do request practice starting from the second semester and take on official requests starting from their second year.

They were advancing that process by a whole year.

“While it’s called an official request, keep in mind that it’s still an extension of request practice. If a situation arises that you can’t handle, the request will be immediately suspended. Also, while it’s called an official request, it’s practically an unofficial request, so naturally there’s no request reward.”

At those words, some students looked disappointed, but that atmosphere soon disappeared.

An official request!

It felt like being officially recognized as Lumern students.

“Did you come personally for the request, Council Chairman?”

When Leo asked with a puzzled face, Roon shook his head.

“No. Actually, I came because of you, Leo.”

“Me?”

“Yes. This child said she wanted to come see you.”

Roon smiled and brought Eiran, who had been behind him, forward.

“So cute!”

“Class president! How do you know her?”

The Class 5 students admired Eiran as she fidgeted nervously.

Leo answered Iliana’s question calmly.

“She’s Roon’s granddaughter.”

“Ooh.”

“L-Leo. Have you been well? You… y-you told me to come visit sometime, so I took the liberty of being presumptuous…”

“Welcome.”

“You seem close with Leo? Hi. I’m Iliana. Have you eaten dinner? Want to eat together?”

“Hey. Iliana. We shouldn’t give this stuff to a guest.”

“Ah. Right. Sorry.”

Iliana and Cal cleared away all the food on the table.

Chelsea glared and grabbed Cal and Iliana by the necks.

Eiran was very flustered by this sight.

The atmosphere was completely different from Seirun.

“Have you eaten?”

“N-not yet.”

“Then want to eat? The kids are picky eaters so they complain, but it’s not inedible.”

“Hey! Leo! Don’t feed her that! It’ll ruin the school’s image!”

“Die!”

“Gack! I surrender! I surrender!”

Chelsea began persistently choking only Cal’s neck.

“Then I’ll accept your kindness.”

Eiran carefully picked up the meat dish with her fork and ate it.

Moving her small mouth and chewing the food thoroughly, Eiran said.

“It’s food made with care.”

“Right? Right? It’s edible, right? Those guys are the weird ones, right?”

Chelsea, who had been choking Cal’s neck, came running over with sparkling eyes.

Eiran flinched and trembled as she watched Chelsea suddenly approach and act friendly.

Then Roon approached and smiled kindly.

“Our Eiran is also a Seirun student.”

“Really?”

“But she wasn’t there during class today?”

“Why wasn’t she there?”

“Earlier I couldn’t talk properly with the Seirun kids because of class, but I want to have a detailed conversation with this opportunity!”

The mention of being a Seirun student raised their interest in Eiran even more.

Eiran’s face turned pale as she watched the students crowding around her.

“E-excuse me! Just a moment…!”

Eiran jumped up from her seat and hurriedly ran upstairs to the second floor, avoiding people.

The Class 5 students were flustered watching this, and Roon’s face hardened.

“Aren’t you going after her?”

At Leo’s question, Roon spoke carefully.

“Leo. Could you go instead?”

“Me?”

“My granddaughter, who wouldn’t come out of her room, was able to muster the courage to come outside thanks to you.”

How surprised he had been when his granddaughter, who had been holed up in her room, came to see him today?

“I just vaguely thought I wanted to see that child getting along with kids her age, but it seems I couldn’t fully understand that child’s heart.”

At Roon’s words, Hallind looked at Leo and nodded.

Leo went upstairs to the second floor, following Eiran.

And he realized that the terrace door at the end of the second floor corridor was open, so he went outside.

In the corner of the terrace, Eiran was crouched down.

When their eyes met with Leo’s, she hurriedly said,

“L-Leo-nim. I’m sorry for showing you such a pathetic sight!”

Leo stared at the apologizing Eiran and recalled a certain elf girl.

‘Berkia.’

Even though thousands of years had passed, traces of her ancestor remained in Eiran.

And Berkia too had been dark when they first met, just like Eiran.

‘Somehow she reminds me of Berkia, so I can’t just leave her alone.’

Leo smiled bitterly and draped his outer coat over Eiran.

“I-if you do this, won’t Leo-nim be cold…?”

“Don’t worry about me.”

Ignoring the flustered Eiran, Leo put his hands in his pockets and stood leaning his back next to Eiran.

“So, why did you run away from Seirun?”

“At first, I wanted to attend Seirun. Because I admired heroes.”

Eiran said while hugging her knees.

When she first enrolled, Eiran said she was in the intermediate class.

She had talent and worked hard, but Eiran didn’t stake everything she had on honing swordsmanship and magic.

Eiran simply preferred reading heroic tales much more than fighting.

Eiran, who loved heroes, was satisfied just being in the same space as hero candidates.

However, being born into the highest nobility of the elves yet trying to settle for the present without any goals made Eiran a sufficient target for mockery.

The introverted girl struggled with that ridicule.

“When I felt that life at Seirun was overwhelming, I met someone like the sun.”

“Who was that?”

“Runia-yang.”

Eiran made a bright expression.

“Runia-yang is truly an amazing person! There’s nothing she can’t do! She’s always confident! Kind to everyone! She’s literally like a hero!”

Eiran’s face lit up brightly, just like when she talked about heroic tales.

In a way, Runia was the person closest to a hero among peers that Eiran had ever met.

Such an image of Runia was enough to captivate the heart of a girl who loved heroic tales.

“So I came to admire Runia-yang. Because she’s such an amazing person unlike me… I thought I wanted to follow in Runia-yang’s footsteps.”

A small goal of wanting to watch an amazing person up close.

Once her goal was set, her talent blossomed and she instantly escaped the intermediate class and rose to the advanced class.

“When I made it to advanced Class 1, Runia-yang treated me really warmly. But… at some point, Runia-yang became scary.”

“Why?”

“I think I made a big mistake during the duel evaluation, and from then on she seemed to start disliking me.”

Leo made a puzzled expression.

‘With her personality, she doesn’t seem like she’d do anything to be hated… Runia isn’t the type to dislike someone over trivial matters either… I should ask about this sometime.’

When she became distant from her admired goal, what remained was the envy and jealousy of those she had surpassed.

When Eiran, whom they had clearly thought was beneath them, grew incomparably beyond them, envy and checks began.

‘So that became a trauma and made her fear her peers?’

Someone with Leo’s personality could rather be cynical about it, but Eiran was definitely too fragile.

“For someone who fears peers, you seem pretty comfortable with me?”

“That’s because Leo-nim gives off a similar feeling to grandfather!”

“Grandfather?”

Eiran, who had been smiling brightly, suddenly became flustered.

“Ah, no! I don’t mean you’re old! That! Uh, you have adult charm… Wh-what am I saying!”

Eiran, who had been rambling, buried her face in her knees as if embarrassed.

Leo, who was laughing at that sight, asked,

“You left Seirun because you thought that unlike others, you who don’t aim to be a hero would only be a hindrance to others?”

“…Yes.”

‘How kind.’

The girl lacked the ambition she should have as a hero.

‘If she had completely given up, there wouldn’t be anything I could do for her.’

Recalling the clean Seirun uniform in Eiran’s room, Leo said,

“Do you like the story of Berkia?”

Though it was a sudden question, Eiran answered vigorously.

“Yes! It’s my ancestor’s story! I love it as much as the stories of the Great Heroes!”

“Then you know too. Why Berkia was able to become a great hero.”

“Huh?”

“Berkia was able to become a hero because she admired the Great Heroes who were her teachers and followed in their footsteps, right?”

“…!”

Only those with big dreams are suited to be heroes – that’s absolutely not the case.

‘If we’re going by that logic, among us except for Risinass, not one of us would be suited to be a hero. Arron aside, Luna, Dweno and I would definitely be eliminated.’

Thinking of his friends, Leo said,

“Why do you care so much about others’ opinions? You just need to go the path you want to go.”

Eiran’s eyes widened.

Seeing those eyes, Leo let out a hollow laugh.

‘Only the personality is different, but she’s exactly like her ancestor.’

Eyes full of admiration.

Though she acted prickly on the outside, Berkia too used to look at Kail with such eyes.

When Leo extended his hand, Eiran hesitated then took his hand.

“Let’s go down. All the Lumern kids have good personalities.”

Led by Leo’s hand as he went ahead, Eiran came down to the first floor where the Class 5 students welcomed her.

“Oh! She came back!”

“Sorry for making you feel burdened.”

“No, maybe she ran away after eating Chelsea’s cooking.”

“You guys!”

Chelsea got fired up but held back in case Eiran got scared again.

Eiran, who had been completely flustered by that unfamiliar atmosphere, soon began to burst into laughter without realizing it.

Eventually she naturally began to get along with the boys and girls her age.

Roon made a moved expression.

“My granddaughter getting along so well with friends her age!”

“I heard that Eiran-student is among the top five first-years at Seirun in skill. Why did she leave school?”

“Until recently, I thought it was because of a student she absolutely couldn’t surpass, but that wasn’t it. The school atmosphere at Seirun was the problem.”

“The school atmosphere?”

“As you know, Seirun gives many benefits to advanced students. Students with low grades are naturally weeded out.”

“Lumern is the same.”

“Right. Given the structure of schools, that can’t be helped. But Seirun has much stronger tendencies in that regard.”

Since the classes themselves were graded, it couldn’t be helped.

“That seems to have been a burden for my granddaughter.”

Roon smiled bitterly.

“I attended Seirun and had a teaching career at Seirun, so I never thought that was a problem. But Seirun’s system didn’t suit my granddaughter.”

Roon looked at Leo.

‘I couldn’t understand frightened Eiran’s heart. In that sense, meeting Leo-kun… was truly great fortune.’

Feeling grateful to the human boy who gave his granddaughter courage, Roon wiped away tears.

Watching such Roon, Hallind said,

“To rise up, she must overcome that. Eiran-student has the skill, so she’ll be able to overcome it.”

“Right. But just now I thought of an even better method.”

“What method?”

“Professor Hallind.”

“Yes, Council Chairman.”

When Roon wiped away his tears and put on a serious expression, Hallind also became serious along with him.

“By any chance, does Lumern accept transfer students?”

Hallind let out a deep sigh.

‘Earlier he was telling me to send him away, and now he’s asking to come. Why are there so many elves inquiring about transfers?’

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