Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 70

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70.

Deep night.

Creak-

Leo carefully opened the window of his dormitory room.

Whoooosh-!

A cold blizzard swirled in.

[It’s cold! Close the door!]

Kirran, who had been shivering in front of a candle with a handkerchief wrapped around him like he was warming himself by a campfire, was startled at the sight.

“Don’t sleep and stay on standby.”

Leaving those words, Leo exited the room through the window.

The place Leo headed to was none other than another luxury hotel where the 2nd year students were staying.

“As expected, you made your move.”

Meanwhile, Runia, who was similarly watching the movements of the Lumern dormitory across from her room window, wore a meaningful expression.

“My intuition was right after all.”

Runia opened the window without hesitation and stepped outside.

Shortly after Leo and Runia left their rooms.

Click-!

“Leo and Miss Runia are to, together…?”

Another window opened and Eiran poked her head out.

Eiran, who had mustered the courage to join Seirun today, was staying here instead of at home following Herdium’s recommendation.

And while she couldn’t sleep properly due to nervousness, she happened to witness Leo and Runia secretly leaving their dormitory.

“What’s going on? Why are Leo and Miss Runia…?”

Eiran pondered as she watched the Lumern grade representative who somehow kept drawing her attention and the Seirun grade representative who was scary but also an object of admiration leaving their dormitory late at night.

“Co, could it be! A secret meeting?”

The rich imagination of an adolescent girl who loved heroic tales ran wild.

She covered her reddened face with both hands, not knowing what to do.

‘Such improper romantic relations as students…!’

Eiran, who had smoothly misunderstood, hurriedly put on her clothes and went outside.

Leo, who had come to the hotel where the Seirun 2nd years were staying, stood on the roof.

Then he concealed his presence and put strength into his hands, driving his fingers into the wall.

Crack-!

The hotel wall was dented.

Using that method to descend to the lower floor, Leo sensed the presence inside the hotel.

‘It seems this place was also rented entirely by Seirun.’

There was no presence felt from inside.

‘The floor the students took is the 3rd floor?’

Since it was already deep into the night, the Seirun students were already asleep.

Leo, who had climbed down the wall to the 3rd floor, checked the interior through the windows.

‘Nine people in total. One is missing.’

Leo narrowed his eyes after confirming the number of sleeping 2nd years.

Then he opened the window of a room that had belongings but was empty.

Click-

The unlocked window opened easily.

Leo sat on the windowsill and took off his snow-covered shoes to avoid leaving footprints as he stepped onto the room floor.

Then he confirmed the name ‘Lauta’ written on the school uniform name tag hanging on the wall.

‘As expected, he secretly left the dormitory.’

“Hey! What are you doing here?”

At that moment, Runia, with a completely flustered expression, called out from the window.

“What about you, what are you doing?”

Leo, who knew that Runia had been secretly following him, asked back with a relaxed face.

“Is that important right now! What if you get caught after recklessly entering the 2nd year dormitory! Come out quickly! Before we get discovered…!”

Runia took off her shoes and approached Leo to drag him out.

Unauthorized departure from dormitory and unauthorized intrusion.

Moreover, considering they were from different schools, if caught, it wouldn’t end with just disciplinary action.

Thud-! Bang-!

“Ugh!”

Runia, who was approaching Leo in shock, unknowingly kicked the table leg.

The table fell to the room floor with a loud noise.

Runia, who had stubbed her toe, felt tears welling up and unconsciously grabbed her foot.

Shortly after, irritated knocking sounds were heard. Knock-knock-

Runia, who had been whimpering while holding her foot, looked toward the door in panic.

‘Huh? It’s not locked!’

If someone opened it and came in like this, they would be caught red-handed.

Leo also narrowed his brow seeing this.

“Hey! Lauta! What’s all this commotion in the middle of the night! I thought you were the only one here! Let’s get some sleep!”

An irritated male student’s voice was heard.

Leo hurriedly left his shoes outside, closed the window, then grabbed the frozen Runia’s wrist.

Then he pushed her to the inner side of the bed and also got under the covers, pulling Runia close.

“Hey! What are you…!”

“Shh!”

Leo brought his finger to Runia’s lips as she tried to say something with a reddened face.

“Are you ignoring me!”

Slam-!

The door opened irritably.

Runia felt her heart stop.

The distance between the door and the bed was quite far, so if they lay with their backs turned, it would be hard to tell that two people were lying there unless someone came close.

“You’re ignoring me even after I came in? Right! The upper-class lord doesn’t want to even talk to a middle-class nobody, is that it?”

The male student, who had opened the door but saw someone under the covers on the bed without even showing their face, made his own assumption and irritably closed the door.

Shortly after, Runia, who came out from under the covers, was red up to her neck and quickly moved away from Leo.

“You didn’t need to hold me that tightly!”

Leo answered as he got down from the bed, watching Runia protest in a small voice.

“If we hadn’t been close together, it would have looked like two people were lying there.”

“That may be true, but!”

‘Ugh! Why is this guy so calm!’

“I don’t know! I don’t know! Anyway! If you tell this story anywhere else, you’re dead!”

Leo burst into laughter watching Runia speak threateningly while even making fists, then headed toward the window.

“Really! Why did you come here!”

“To look for Lauta.”

Runia paused at Leo’s words.

“This is Senior Lauta’s room?”

“Yes. He secretly left the dormitory. He definitely headed to Fairy Forest.”

“Why?”

Runia made an expression of not understanding.

“We’ll know when we go see.”

“Wait. You’re going to Fairy Forest at this hour?”

“Yeah. You go back to the dormitory first.”

“…”

Runia crossed her arms and pondered.

“You think Senior Lauta is connected to this incident, don’t you?”

“Yes.”

“Your thinking is wrong. That’s a ridiculous story.”

Even if he was an annoying senior, Lauta was still a Seirun student.

From Runia’s perspective, it couldn’t feel good to have a student from another academy associate a Seirun student with Tartaros.

But it was certainly strange that he had secretly gone to Fairy Forest at this time.

“So I’ll go with you to confirm it. As Seirun’s 1st year representative, I need to clear the suspicion about a senior from the same academy.”

“Do whatever you want.”

Leo put on his shoes and climbed up to the roof.

Runia followed behind him.

“Alright, then let’s go.”

The two left the city and arrived at the entrance of Fairy Forest.

Leo stopped in place upon reaching the entrance and let out a small sigh.

“Are you going to keep following us too?”

“Huh?”

Runia was flustered by the sudden words.

Rustle-

With the sound of pushing through the thicket, Eiran revealed herself.

“Eiran? When did you start following us?”

“I’ve been following along with you the whole time.”

“What?”

From the moment Leo realized Runia was following, he had also sensed Eiran’s presence.

‘Eiran isn’t the type to tattle.’

If Eiran witnessed someone sneaking out, she was the type to worry about it alone rather than report it.

So he had left her alone, but since she kept following, he couldn’t help but ask why.

Runia approached Eiran.

“Eiran. Why did you come all the way here? Hurry back to the dormitory…”

“Ah…!”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“N-no! Improper romantic relationships between students aren’t allowed!”

“…”

Runia made a dumbfounded expression watching Eiran urgently shout with a bright red face.

“What are you talking about?”

“I saw it! Leo-nim and Runia-yang sneaking out of the dormitory and secretly entering another hotel room!”

“Eiran! Wait! Listen to me. That’s…”

“O-of course Runia-yang is beautiful! A-and Leo-nim is very handsome too! I think you suit each other! But you’re still 1st years! To shamefully have a physical relationship with each other…!”

“Ah! Really! It’s not like that! Hey! Leo! You explain quickly too!”

Unable to listen to the runaway delusions any longer, Runia shouted and looked toward Leo.

And seeing Leo holding his stomach and laughing, veins popped up on her forehead with a snap!

“You’re laughing! Laughing?! Is this funny to you!”

Watching Runia shout “Hey! Hey!” and grab his collar, Leo stopped laughing, freed Runia’s hands, and spoke to Eiran.

“Eiran. You misunderstood. Runia and I don’t have that kind of relationship.”

“I-is that really true?”

“Yes. That place earlier was the Seirun 2nd years’ dormitory. We went in briefly because we had something to investigate. We came out right away anyway.”

“Ah…”

Eiran let out an exclamation.

And after a moment, she covered her face and crouched down on the ground.

“I-I’m embarrassed.”

“Geez. Really. I’m getting embarrassed for no reason too.”

Runia, who had been fanning her face with her hand, looked at Eiran and laughed.

“But you came to stop me because you thought I was having an improper romantic relationship?”

“S-sorry. You must have felt bad, right?”

“No. I’m just curious. It’s not like I’d fail to focus on my studies because of love affairs. But if that happened, wouldn’t it be good for you?”

At Seirun, where competition between students was much more intense than at Lumern, having an opponent lose focus on their studies would be a good thing.

“No. Not at all. Runia-yang is the best student, so I hope you’ll always be the best.”

Runia was slightly surprised by those words.

‘She was thinking like this?’

Runia came from the most prestigious family and was always overflowing with confidence.

At the same time, she also thought it was boring.

There were no students among Seirun’s 1st years who could be Runia’s match.

So when Eiran, who had been in the intermediate class, suddenly climbed up to just below her level, she was delighted to have a rival.

Even when other students whispered about Eiran, she only snorted.

She didn’t think her rival would be swayed by the words of such losers.

‘Come to think of it, Eiran was always alone.’

Runia felt ashamed of herself for calling Eiran a friend but paying no attention to her at all.

“Eiran.”

“Yes?”

“Why didn’t you come to academy? Being sick was a lie, right?”

At Runia’s question, Eiran hung her head low.

“I didn’t attend academy with the serious goal of becoming a hero like others, but simply with a light heart. I wanted to watch heroic people up close.”

She admired heroes, but had never pictured herself becoming one. She just enjoyed watching.

“I thought it might be rude to those who seriously dream of becoming heroes for someone like me to attend academy…”

“Rude? That’s ridiculous. That kind of thinking is actually rude to your own efforts.”

Going from the intermediate class to 2nd place in the entire academy was never an easy thing.

Eiran was actually the center of attention.

But introverted and timid Eiran was scared of that attention.

Along with that, the envy and jealousy from classmates that began pouring in was also burdensome.

Feeling like she was left all alone, she had fled back to her family home.

After hearing Eiran’s words, Runia sighed deeply and said:

“I want you to keep attending academy.”

“W-why?”

“Because you’re my friend.”

Eiran made a surprised expression.

“W-were you and I friends?”

“Huh?”

“Didn’t you dislike me?”

“Pfft.”

When laughter was heard from behind, Runia glared at Leo once.

What Eiran said earlier about not considering Runia a friend had been right.

“We are friends, you know? So don’t mind the nonsense other kids say and attend academy! I need you!”

“Me?”

“Yes. That’s right. As a friend and rival, I hope you’ll keep competing with me.”

At those words, Eiran’s face, which had been bewildered, brightened.

Seeing that smile, Leo chuckled.

“Kids really do grow up fast.”

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