Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 716

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716.

Jon from the Knight Department and Ilesa from the Magic Studies Department.

And finally, Ledin from the Summoning Department.

Approximately 2000 years ago.

They were the finest talents who had high reputations as Lumern Student Council Presidents and were globally recognized with bright futures ahead.

But Chelsea looked at these distant seniors with pitying eyes.

Jon and Ilesa were kneeling on the ground.

The sight of a knight in blood-soaked, hollow armor and a headless mage in a red cloak sitting like that looked quite eerie.

But she didn’t feel any fear.

Just an infinitely small presence.

It was because of Leo, who sat in a chair in front of them with his arms crossed and legs crossed.

Next to Jon and Ilesa, Ledin was sprawled out.

The arm that had been pulled by Leo was dangling at a strange angle.

All three had lost their arrogant senior act completely.

They were just cowering endlessly before Leo.

Chelsea, who had been nursing Iliana, carefully approached Leo.

And asked the eerie-looking seniors.

“I’m curious about something. Why can’t you move at all in front of Leo?”

Chelsea had revealed Leo’s identity to the spirits.

But they didn’t seem to believe that fact particularly.

It was understandable.

Even when they were alive, Kail’s records were already heavily damaged.

Of course, it wasn’t as bad as when Leo had just reincarnated – being treated as a completely fictional character.

Or being treated as a fraud who stole the achievements of great heroes.

But even then, there was opposition in academic circles about whether the Hero of the Beginning actually existed or not.

A great hero whose existence was questionable.

Given that situation, there was no way they would easily believe talk of reincarnation.

Yet the three spirits couldn’t move at all before Leo.

Because Leo had twisted Ledin’s arm at a bizarre angle?

‘That’s probably not it.’

No matter how much might makes right, weren’t they graduates of Lumern?

She didn’t think they would have submitted to violence.

“That’s because this person is the one who summoned us.”

Ilesa spoke in a slightly muffled voice.

It was eerie hearing a voice when she had no head.

“If this person wanted to, he could send us back.”

“Ah.”

In other words, they were obedient because their existence as spirits depended on Leo’s spiritual power.

If they went against Leo’s mood, they would return to being mere mana unable to exercise their will.

Chelsea nodded as if she understood, then asked another question.

“Then why do you three look so… so… scary?”

“This is how we looked at the end of our lives, junior.”

Ilesa shrugged at Chelsea’s question and pointed to Jon.

“This noble knight here lost his body in war. That’s why only his armor was summoned.”

Next, she pointed to Ledin.

“This summoner lost his lower body.”

Finally, Ilesa pointed to herself.

“And I, the great apprentice archmage Ilesa Ruan, unfortunately had my throat – chomp! – torn out by a demonic beast.”

Having said that much, Ilesa spoke in a resentful voice.

“Maybe because that gentleman’s spirit magic is clumsy, he couldn’t summon us in perfect form.”

Ilesa expressed her dissatisfaction.

“You must have had a pretty face. What a shame.”

“Oh my, oh my. I was quite a beauty. During my school days, I was often told I was like a single flower.”

“Single flower my ass. You were a madwoman with flowers stuck in your hair.”

Jon scoffed.

“What are you saying? Coming from someone who never received a single love letter in his life.”

‘The bad relationships between departments are the same now as 2000 years ago.’

Probably it was the same when Lumern was first established too?

With such thoughts, Chelsea asked one final question.

“This is what I’m most curious about. Why did you scare us?”

At first, she thought they were ghosts.

But having talked like this, these people were only scary in appearance.

They were ordinary students commonly seen at Lumern.

‘…Am I not normal either, calling such people ordinary?’

Certainly, her standards had changed a lot since coming to Lumern.

‘Do I look like that to other people too?’

Chelsea, who had been lost in thought for a moment, shook her head vigorously to dispel her thoughts.

Meanwhile, Ilesa played completely innocent.

“Huh? What are you talking about? I don’t know anything about that.”

At Ilesa’s reaction, Chelsea glanced at Leo.

“Want me to make her understand?”

Seeing Leo smile menacingly, Ilesa shrank back.

‘Wow, he’s like a thug. Leo is good at threatening too.’

As expected, there’s nothing he can’t do, Chelsea admired inwardly.

Ilesa spoke hesitantly.

“Well… when we were first summoned, we had almost lost our reason. So we were moving on instinct and…”

“And?”

“Seeing kids screaming and running away from us… it was kind of fun, you know?”

Ilesa spoke in a slightly excited voice.

“You know how it is? It was like playing tag!”

Ilesa smiled brightly, shaking both clenched fists up and down.

“During our school days, we only did difficult studying and combat training! So seeing kids screaming and running away was really fun!”

At Ilesa’s words, Chelsea muttered inwardly.

‘What about the others?’

Looking at Jon and Ledin, they had similar reactions.

‘…These people are definitely our seniors.’

To chase people around acting like evil spirits over just that.

Somehow, she felt like the current seniors would do the same.

Chelsea was sighing deeply at the three who felt completely familiar.

“I’ve been curious about something.”

Then Leo spoke up.

“Why are you the only one answering?”

Leo pointed at Ilesa with his toe.

As he said, only Ilesa had been answering Chelsea’s questions.

Ilesa answered Leo’s question.

“Isn’t that obvious?”

“Obvious?”

“Yeah. She’s a Magic Studies student.”

“So what?”

“She wouldn’t be asking these guys, would she?”

Chelsea tilted her head as she watched Ilesa draw a clear line as if it were obvious.

“But I did ask both seniors too…”

“Why are those guys seniors? Your only senior here is me alone!”

Ilesa grabbed Chelsea’s shoulders and shook her vigorously.

Chelsea looked flustered as the headless mage shook her around.

Jon and Ledin remained calm even when told not to treat themselves as seniors.

Chelsea, who had been watching them, made an expression as if she remembered something.

“Ah.”

“What?”

“Come to think of it, there was a Class War 2000 years ago.”

“What’s that about?”

“As expected, Leo oppa doesn’t know.”

Chelsea, knowing that Leo wasn’t particularly interested in history, explained about the Class War.

Since it wasn’t even in Lumern’s curriculum, one couldn’t know without interest.

The Class War.

It was literally a great war where Knights, Mages, and Summoners formed factions and fought each other.

It was a civil war among the human race, one of the largest scale wars in the history of Heroes.

Since Lumern had been neutral territory for 3000 years, the war didn’t occur within Lumern itself, but as they inevitably had to be affected, the three spirits who attended Lumern during this period were thoroughly drawing lines between themselves.

“The Class War only barely stopped after Tartaros’s invasion.”

Leo’s face crumpled at Chelsea’s explanation.

“These bastards really do all sorts of nonsense when they’re comfortable!”

As Leo, who knew how the world had collapsed during the Age of Calamity 5000 years ago, hearing such civil war stories made his blood boil.

“Who told you guys to fight among yourselves after saving the world?!”

“W-we didn’t start that war.”

“W-we were just caught up in the war.”

“R-right!”

As the atmosphere of the person claiming to be the Hero of the Beginning turned menacing, the three spirits who had been speaking casually went back to using formal speech with Leo.

They thought the human before them might really tear off their limbs if they made a mistake.

Chelsea looked incredulous at the sight of the living being more frightening than the dead.

‘No wait. Leo oppa is someone who died and came back to life.’

Chelsea shook her head as she watched the spirits unable to move before Leo.

“If you make any sounds about class rivalry in front of me from now on, know that I’ll really dismantle you.”

“O-of course.”

“It seems to be an age of harmony now!”

“Heroes must value harmony!”

“But Leo oppa, you made the classes fight each other.”

“Hm? What did you say?”

“Nothing at all.”

Chelsea quickly shook her head as she looked at Leo smiling at her.

Chelsea knew well that while Leo found her cute, she could get into trouble if she made a mistake.

“So? What are your regrets?”

If they became spirits, it meant they had regrets.

At Leo’s question, Chelsea could easily predict what the three spirits’ regrets were.

‘Since they were in the portrait corridor… it must be that they couldn’t fully bloom their potential.’

Chelsea looked at the three spirits with a pitying expression.

They were former Student Council Presidents.

Young spirits who had to die without being able to fulfill their aspirations.

How heartbreaking must that have been?

‘The Knight senior must have wanted to achieve merit on the battlefield. The Mage senior’s dream would have been to be praised as a great mage… Didn’t the Summoner senior want to interact with powerful summons?’

As Chelsea made a slightly wistful expression while thinking of each class’s typical dreams and aspirations.

Jon shouted energetically.

“I want to be popular with women! When I was alive, I was only popular with smelly men!”

“…”

Chelsea’s face turned horribly grim at this grand yet humble dream.

“I… want to try having a girlfriend. I was popular in my youth, but I never made a lover because I was unnecessarily dignified.”

Ledin also made an embarrassed expression.

“I want to try having a boyfriend too! I used to mock romance before I died! But after dying, I feel wronged!”

Ilesa also bounced up and down in place.

Chelsea covered her face with her hands.

‘These things are also seniors.’

After composing herself, Chelsea spoke.

“But you three are already dead anyway. You can’t make lovers, can you? Or maybe the three of you could try dating each other…”

“I’d rather choose death.”

Jon said mercilessly.

“You’re already dead.”

“I’ll die once more.”

Ledin also said in a cold voice.

“No matter how much you offer me, I’ll pass on these guys.”

Ilesa snorted.

“…Then you three can’t date, can you?”

At those words, the three looked at each other and said simultaneously.

“Then we’ll interfere with others’ dating.”

“Why does the conclusion come to that?”

“Since we couldn’t do it, we’ll be envious if our juniors do.”

“…”

‘What kind of people are these.’

As Chelsea pressed her temples.

“Pass.”

“…?”

At Leo’s ominous voice from behind, Chelsea turned her head.

There, Leo was laughing as if he found it interesting.

‘Ah.’

Chelsea immediately understood what that laughter would bring.

‘It’s a disaster.’

***

The next morning.

Chelsea came to the breakfast cafeteria with a tired face.

“Chelsea. Did you come in late yesterday?”

“Yes, brother.”

“Aren’t you staying out too late at night?”

Chelsea smiled slightly at Avad who asked with a worried expression.

“I’m fine.”

‘…Just what is Leo oppa planning to do with those seniors?’

They were spirits who clearly enjoyed tormenting students.

Considering Leo’s recent tendency to torment students.

Chelsea didn’t want to think deeply about how they would appear before the students.

As she sighed and took a bite of her sandwich, Chelsea tilted her head at the newspaper content Avad was reading beside her.

“Heavy snowfall due to abnormal temperatures in the Eastern Continent?”

“It’s the Deviyang Kingdom where civil war recently broke out.”

“The civil war between the Second Prince and the First Princess, right?”

“Yeah.”

“But a blizzard when summer is approaching.”

“There’s talk that it’s the work of an Archmage.”

“What a mage with nothing better to do.”

Chelsea grumbled as she chewed her sandwich.

Avad chuckled at that.

“Right?”

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