Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 746

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746.

The Second Prince. Bedekos’ Camp.

The morale of the Bedekos faction nobles seemed to pierce the sky.

“As long as Seirun’s glorious Heroes are with us! We shall be victorious!”

Someone who appeared to be a commander raised his sword and shouted.

“Uaaaaaaah!”

“Long live Seirun’s Heroes!”

The knights raised their swords in unison and let out battle cries.

The morale of the knights standing on the battlefield seemed to pierce the heavens.

However, the soldiers’ morale fell far short of theirs.

The common soldiers had been dragged out without understanding why and were fighting against people from their own country.

Even though they had gained the upper hand, their morale couldn’t easily rise.

Many soldiers on the actual battlefield had received kindness from enemy troops.

“Why do we have to fight?”

“Ugh… I don’t want this anymore. I want to go back home.”

“I have family in the west…!”

Resentment spread among the soldiers.

Someone who had been mixed in among the soldiers while wearing a hood quietly disappeared.

A short while later.

The person who arrived at a tent not far from the soldiers’ quarters quietly removed their hood.

It was Ruka, a half-elf who ranked 3rd in grades among Seirun’s 3rd years.

“As expected, the soldiers’ morale is crawling along the ground.”

“I thought so.”

Runia let out a deep sigh.

The elf students’ expressions were not good.

“The humans are so pitiful!”

“Ah. We need to end this war quickly!”

“The enemy troops are also the same humans… To think such a tragedy exists.”

Sighs poured out among the elves.

Watching this, Runia made a strange expression.

‘No way. Just a few months ago, these guys were cursing humans as a barbaric race that wages war among themselves…’

They were viewing Deviyang Kingdom’s civil war as a great tragedy and genuinely feeling sorry about it.

It wasn’t a bad attitude at all, but Runia couldn’t adapt to that temperature difference.

Just then.

Someone entered the tent.

It was Rea, the 2nd year valedictorian.

“Everyone! I got some combat rations that the common soldiers eat!”

“Ooooh! A new human culture!”

“I’m curious!”

“I want to try it!”

“Hey! You idiots! Do you think we’re here to have fun! Getting so excited over seeing food like morons… Gah!”

Watching the Seirun students whose mood instantly heated up, Runia grabbed the back of her neck.

The Seirun students shrank their necks at Runia’s fierce aura.

“Endure it. Endure it. This is better than hating humans, right?”

Ruka smiled awkwardly and calmed Runia down.

Ruka was certainly right.

For Runia, who had hoped since her first year that the entire elf race would improve relations with humans, this direction of the school didn’t feel entirely bad.

‘The problem is these damn pointy-ears have no sense of moderation!’

Grinding her teeth inwardly, Runia scratched her head vigorously.

Meanwhile, the Seirun students took on reverent postures.

“Very important supplies that common soldiers eat. We shouldn’t eat this out of simple curiosity. We must eat it while feeling their joys and sorrows.”

“I agree!”

Watching them change the atmosphere, Runia covered her face with her hands.

The Seirun students were somehow trying to feel and understand human culture.

‘To think I have to spend the rest of my school life with these idiots. Should I just transfer to Lumern?’

Runia, who smiled sadly to herself, came out of the tent.

Now looking at the sunset sky and taking a deep breath, Runia suddenly spotted Eiran sitting gloomily by the campfire with her legs drawn up.

“Eiran, what are you doing there?”

“Miss Runia.”

Eiran looked at Runia with a face that seemed about to cry.

Seeing that, Runia said.

“Why? Because the humans are calling you the Necromancer…”

“Don’t call me by such a horrible nickname!”

Startled, Eiran rushed at Runia, grabbed her by the collar, and shook her violently.

“Ah, okay! I won’t call you that!”

Runia sat down right in front of Eiran, feeling her eyes spinning.

And she sighed.

“Anyway, I’m glad you’re here. My magic hurts people, so it’s not easy to participate in war.”

Although Runia had participated in the civil war according to the council’s decision, she absolutely didn’t want to kill people.

In that sense, Runia couldn’t rashly participate in the battlefield.

Flames burn not only enemies but allies as well.

If she wielded such power carelessly on the battlefield, countless people would turn to ash.

At Runia’s words, Eiran sighed deeply.

“Controlling my strength isn’t easy for me either.”

Subduing people without killing them is difficult work.

Especially on a battlefield.

“Since we’ve intervened, Lumern will soon intervene too. Then we’ll be able to lead both forces to negotiation.”

Seirun hadn’t intervened in Deviyang’s civil war without any thought.

Of course, the reason for intervening in the civil war was ‘we cannot stand by and watch humans experience the tragedy of fratricidal conflict,’ which would have been unimaginable for the old Seirun.

Anyway, they had intervened in the civil war expecting that if they got involved, Lumern would intervene, and the civil war could be ended under the mediation of two great powers.

“Yes. Then we’ll be able to see Lord Risinass too, right?”

News of Risinass’s descent had already spread throughout the world.

As such, Eiran was looking forward to meeting Risinass.

A meeting with none other than that King of Wisdom.

It was when Eiran’s eyes were sparkling brightly.

“…I suppose so. He’ll definitely be moving together with Leo.”

Runia’s eyes wavered slightly.

Seeing such Runia, Eiran made a puzzled expression.

“What’s wrong?”

“Lord Risinass will be with Leo the whole time, right?”

“Of course.”

“Ugh…”

Thinking that far, Runia bit her lips tightly and fidgeted restlessly.

Watching this, Eiran tilted her head.

“Why?”

“Well… Leo and Lord Risinass have a deep relationship… so… well… maybe at night…”

“Miss Runia.”

Eiran’s eyes narrowed.

“What? What?!”

Watching Runia bristle with a reddened face, Eiran said.

“You can’t write if you have such vulgar thoughts.”

“What’s vulgar about it! Compared to those obscene novels you love reading, this is wholesome!”

“What’s wrong with the novels I read! And I don’t love reading them! It was just simple curiosity…!”

“For curiosity, you read way too many! And throw some away! Now I have to hide your books in my room too!”

“But, but! I only kept the masterpieces I carefully selected.”

“Masterpieces? What was the title of that book series in my room? Three People’s…”

“Ahh! Ahh! Ahh! Don’t say it! Don’t say it! You said you wouldn’t look!”

Eiran’s face turned bright red as she screamed and lunged at Runia to cover her mouth.

The two struggled on the ground for a moment before panting and creating distance between them.

After taking a deep breath, Eiran spoke.

“S-sorry. I got excited.”

“It’s fine.”

Runia shook her head, her expression growing somber.

“Anyway… Leo and Lord Risinass are… well… married.”

“…That’s true.”

The relationship between the Hero of the Beginning and the King of Wisdom was top secret known only to a few.

But Runia had shared this matter with Eiran.

“But it’s completely natural, isn’t it?”

Eiran tilted her head.

“…Because of Lady Luna.”

“Ah…”

Eiran’s face grew slightly somber.

Luna, the Progenitor of the Starry Skies whom she respected endlessly.

The beautiful Progenitor who cherished them so much.

And Eiran knew the words Luna left to the world in her final moments.

Runia had not only witnessed that confession but had also seen how the two were together before that.

Runia and Eiran felt their hearts growing complicated.

“I hope future generations remember that the Hero of the Beginning and the Progenitor of the Starry Skies were lovers.”

Runia spoke with a slightly guilty expression.

Eiran nodded in response.

“Me too.”

Luna’s confession to the world.

They couldn’t imagine what Luna’s heart was like when she made such a confession in her final moments.

Perhaps she wanted to freely express her feelings that she had kept hidden deep inside.

Leo and Luna.

The two already lived in different worlds.

Then at the very least, it was the wish of both of them—no, of all the elves—that future generations would remember them as lovers.

‘Though we’re terribly sorry to Lord Risinass.’

“And… well… though it’s irreverent to say… didn’t Lord Leo say so? That his marriage to Lord Risinass was a deception.”

“That’s true.”

“Then wouldn’t it be correct to say they’re not really married?”

“Is that so?”

“Yes! I’m sure that’s right!”

“I suppose so. Given Leo’s personality, he wouldn’t tolerate being deceived.”

Runia nodded.

Seeing this, Eiran smiled brightly.

“Actually! I’ve been writing a novel about Lord Leo and Lady Luna recently!”

“…You… will be punished by heaven.”

“It’s not a strange novel!”

Eiran shouted and brought out a book from her personal tent.

“Look!”

“…I feel like I’ll be punished by heaven too…”

Runia carefully opened the book with a dubious expression.

A moment later.

She let out a sigh of relief.

“Fortunately, it’s not a vulgar novel.”

“Miss Runia!”

“Sorry. Sorry.”

Runia laughed “Ahaha-” and closed the book.

“But you really wrote it well.”

The book’s content was about the love between the Progenitor of the Starry Skies and the Hero of the Beginning.

The characters’ personalities and speech patterns were 180 degrees different from the real people, but wasn’t it fiction anyway?

“This will become a bestseller! Then I’ll spread the idea that those two were in love into people’s minds! It’s what you’d call a cultural victory!”

It was quite an ambitious and deadly plan.

But Eiran really wanted to make it happen.

‘…Lady Berkia regarded Lord Leo as a father.’

That meant her ancestor considered Kail and Luna as parents.

‘Though I’m sorry to Lady Bihar and Miss Sia… and Lord Risinass…’

For Eiran, her heart couldn’t help but lean more toward Berkia, her distant ancestor, and Luna, who had been her teacher.

Runia nodded at Eiran’s words.

“This might actually work.”

Though it was just the beginning, it was extremely interesting.

If this novel really became famous.

People might lean more toward the love between Kail and Luna.

Then Ruka entered the tent.

“Runia, Eiran. A commander from the prince’s side has come. It seems to be a strategy meeting.”

At those words, both of them nodded and stood up.

“Oh right, right, right. I should leave this behind.”

Eiran left the book she was writing in her tent.

In the tent shrouded in darkness.

Swoosh-

Someone revealed themselves.

Risinass stared intently at the book and reached out to check its contents.

After checking the contents, Risinass narrowed his eyes.

‘These little ones. They’re dangerous.’

He had felt this kind of threat before.

Specifically from Berkia.

The problem was that Berkia and these two were clearly different.

Runia and Eiran were obviously very smart and also had incomparably higher social status than Berkia had back then.

They were very threatening opponents who had both the will and ability to execute their ideas.

He had been ignoring Mellina and En’s efforts to bring him and Leo together, but it seemed this wasn’t the time for that.

Past and present, elves surprisingly tended to push forward and see what happens.

Feeling a sense of crisis, Risinass felt urgency.

‘These girls won’t do. I need to do something quickly.’

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