Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 785

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785.

The inn run by Cal, the quiet daily life on the 1st floor.

Cal served refreshments to his classmates whom he hadn’t seen in a long time.

The restaurant on the 1st floor of Cal’s inn served not only simple meals but also alcohol, and functioned as a high-end cafe as well.

After attending Lumern for a year and benchmarking the shops established in Lumern well, it became the most visited shop by Lumern students in Lumeria City.

Besides Chelsea and Iliana, all Lumern students naturally used the shop.

On one side of the shop, there was also a stand selling items needed for school life or missions.

Leo silently looked at several familiar faces on the 1st floor.

Then Chelsea sipped her tea and said.

“Cal. Are there any decent missions for earning credits?”

“Why? Are your credits low again?”

At Cal’s question, Chelsea rested her chin on her hand, turned her gaze elsewhere, and whistled.

“You have skills and good grades, so why do you skip so much? Learn from Iliana.”

“C-Cal, what did I…?”

“Iliana. You’re really like a model student measured with a ruler. You work hard in everything and are sincere. You listen well to the professors. You do your assignments diligently.”

At Cal’s words, Iliana made a shy expression.

Glug glug glug—

“Excuse me. You said Leo, right? The water is overflowing.”

At Chelsea’s words, Leo lifted the water pitcher he had been pouring.

“How clumsy.”

When Chelsea took out her staff and waved it lightly, the spilled water floated in the air and then scattered and disappeared.

Watching Chelsea easily clean up, Cal clicked his tongue.

“Did you transfer heat to the air to evaporate it?”

“Yeah. You really have good insight.”

“Your mana control sense is such a waste though.”

“Hehe! What’s there to waste? I’m the party leader of the 3rd year 2nd party! Isn’t this impressive enough?”

“It is impressive. It’s a position I could never dream of.”

Cal sighed.

“But Chelsea. You could easily get into the 1st party, couldn’t you?”

At those words, Chelsea’s eyes widened.

Then she burst into giggles.

“If I forced myself to try hard, I could probably barely make it. But then I’d really have to lose sleep and work very hard. And most importantly, I’d have to compete with my big brother, wouldn’t I?”

Chelsea smiled brightly.

“It’s enough for me to play a supporting role for my big brother. Sister Rea also asked me to lead the 2nd party.”

Watching Chelsea puff out her chest with a proud expression, Leo asked Iliana.

“What’s the 1st party and what’s the 2nd party?”

“Huh? Well, that is…”

At Leo’s question, Iliana’s eyes widened and she bowed her head deeply.

‘She’s not adjusting well.’

Leo made a strange expression looking at Iliana like that.

It was bewildering enough that Iliana, who was always so full of energy that she couldn’t control herself and caused trouble, was being quiet, but to see her being so mindful of others like this.

Leo furrowed his brow, recalling Iliana’s cheerful appearance from when they first met.

‘Was Iliana in this world originally timid? But looking at Cal, Chelsea… and Ar, their personalities don’t seem to have changed much.’

It was just the difference of whether he was born or not.

His friends’ personalities hadn’t changed much.

Leo looked at Chelsea, who was talking with Cal.

‘Well, thanks to that, this one seems to not have found her own path though.’

Chelsea from Leo’s world also hadn’t found her own path when they first met.

From a young age, Chelsea was satisfied with following behind Avad, who she thought was the ideal hero of reality.

After meeting Leo during the entrance exam, she tried to chase after Leo, the hero she had only seen in fairy tales.

That wasn’t a wrong path, nor was it bad.

But Chelsea’s talent was too great to walk while only looking at other people’s backs.

That’s why both Leo and Avad hoped Chelsea would find her own path, and as a result, she eventually found her own way.

She chose to stand beside Leo and Avad rather than follow behind them.

But the Chelsea here was different.

‘She seems to be chasing after Risinass instead of Avad… instead of me.’

Having spent a long time together, it wasn’t difficult to tell.

‘Seeing that Cal left Lumern at that Risinass guy’s suggestion… it might not be a strange situation.’

Leo’s face darkened.

He could easily guess what the 1st and 2nd parties mentioned in Chelsea and Cal’s conversation were, even without hearing an explanation.

However, he still needed a detailed explanation.

“Um… well… the 1st and 2nd parties are…”

As Iliana tried to explain in a crawling voice, Leo said.

“Speak comfortably.”

“Huh?”

“Anyway, I’m the same age as Cal and we’re friends. It’s a bit uncomfortable that you, Cal’s friend, are being so cautious with me.”

“Then… should I speak casually?”

“Please do.”

“O-okay… should I… call you Leo?”

“Call me comfortably. So. What are the 1st and 2nd parties?”

“Yeah. The 1st party means the party selected from the best skilled students in each grade at Lumern Academy.”

‘As expected.’

“The members of the 3rd year 1st party are… Sia, Chloe, Selia, Avad, Duran, Woreden, Eliza, these seven people. Leo, right? You must have heard these names before.”

“What about Rea?”

“Sister Rea is on a different level!”

Chelsea suddenly interjected into their conversation.

Chelsea stood up with a snap, put her hand on her waist, and made an “ahem!” expression.

“Sister Rea, the student council president, is truly on a different level. You can’t call it the same party!”

“Why are you the one bragging?”

Cal let out a hollow laugh.

Watching that, Leo asked.

“Who are the 2nd party members?”

“Me and Iliana here. And Sister Nella. Taide and Julliden from the Summoning Department. Howl from the Knight Academy, Ellig from the Department of Magic!”

They were all top performers.

“Is there really a need to divide the 1st and 2nd parties?”

“Of course! The 1st party is the symbol of each grade! In other words, they’re the aces. Well, the 2nd party is impressive enough too. We’re like supporters and reserve members of the 1st party, you could say?”

According to Chelsea’s explanation, it seemed like all of Lumern’s capabilities were concentrated in the 1st party.

‘As expected, different from the Risinass I know.’

It was different from Risinass, who wanted many people to unfold their potential.

As he lightly sighed inwardly, Chelsea said.

“Anyway Cal! Isn’t there a mission where I can earn credits easily right now? Preferably an easy one.”

“Would there be such a thing?”

Cal lightly clicked his tongue, got up from his seat, and headed to the counter.

Then he brought out several mission papers.

“These are request forms I set aside separately because I didn’t think students should take them carelessly.”

“I asked for easy ones.”

“The only missions where you can fill up credits in a short time are these kinds of missions.”

Cal clicked his tongue and looked at the mission documents.

“The minimum number of people starts from 4.”

When Chelsea pouted her lips, Cal shrugged his shoulders.

“Gathering party members is easy, isn’t it?”

“If it were easy, would I have come to you? Everyone’s busy preparing for exams. Iliana is the only one who can help.”

Chelsea picked up a request form.

“Death Land reconnaissance mission. This would be the fastest mission we could complete in a short time.”

Death Land.

It was the territory of a country that Hel Kaiser, the Commander-in-Chief, had destroyed 500 years ago.

Even now, it was a place under Tartaros’s influence where countless Undead appeared.

The request form mentioned that Death Land’s recent movements seemed unusual.

“Should we hire mercenaries for the missing party members?”

Chelsea was tilting her head when—

“Want me to help?”

“Huh?”

Chelsea’s eyes widened at Leo’s words.

“I happen to be free. Cal, how about you come along too?”

“Eh? Me too?”

Cal pointed at himself with his finger.

At those words, Chelsea’s eyes sparkled.

“Great! Cal! You seem free too!”

“Hey hey. I need to watch the shop.”

“Didn’t you always say your shop employees were competent? Trust them and leave it to them!”

Chelsea grinned brightly.

Looking at Chelsea like that, Cal narrowed his eyes.

“You’re doing this to save money because you don’t have spending money, aren’t you?”

“Yeah.”

Watching Chelsea nod shamelessly, Cal sighed with an “Ugh.”

“Leo. But will you be okay? Death Land is an extremely dangerous place.”

At Cal’s words, Leo smiled slightly.

“I won’t hold you back.”

“If… if it seems dangerous, I’ll protect you!”

Iliana spoke with a slightly strong voice.

“Thanks.”

“It’s… it’s nothing.”

When Leo smiled and spoke, Iliana beamed and said.

“Alright! Then let’s depart for Death Land right away!”

Iliana rolled up the request form and waved it like a baton.

“Right now?!”

“Of course, right now.”

Chelsea tapped his shoulder with the rolled-up request form and stood up.

“I’ve prepared everything, so you just need to follow.”

Iliana followed behind Chelsea, who left the shop like a leader.

Watching this, Leo stood up and looked at Cal.

Cal said various things to the employee, then went into what appeared to be a storage room on the 1st floor, and shortly after came out dragging a large bag, following Chelsea.

Leo silently followed behind them.

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Crackle crackle—

That evening.

The group, having reached a place not far from Death Land, was preparing to camp.

Leo was cooking stew in front of the campfire and distributing it to the students.

The faces of the three people who saw the stew changed strangely for a moment.

“Why?”

“No… this looks exactly the same as the stew Rea makes for us?”

Cal suspiciously poked at the meat in the stew with his spoon.

Chelsea carefully brought her nose close and sniffed, then furrowed her brow.

“It smells exactly the same too?”

Iliana made a pained expression, going “Uuuugh—!”

Seeing those reactions that seemed to indicate trauma, Leo calmly ate a spoonful of stew and said.

“From the looks of it, your student council president is terrible at cooking.”

“Yeah. You could say it’s the only flaw of Rea, who’s perfect in everything else?”

Seeing Leo calmly eating the stew, Chelsea also opened her mouth wide and ate the stew.

Then she opened her eyes wide and cupped her cheeks.

“Despite how it looks, it’s incredibly delicious!”

Seeing Chelsea smile happily, Cal and Iliana also carefully ate the food.

And then their eyes widened.

“Wow, the visual isn’t great but the taste is amazing?”

When Cal exclaimed in admiration, Leo looked at the stew he had made.

Visually it looked quite excellent, but it seemed mediocre to their eyes.

‘Whether in my previous life or after reincarnation, those cursed cooking skills don’t seem to go anywhere.’

She might have copied the appearance of the food he made.

If even the smell was the same, it was certain.

But thanks to her catastrophic cooking skills, the taste was apparently still terribly awful.

Awful enough to cause trauma.

Leo clicked his tongue and ate his meal.

After the meal ended.

Iliana and Cal went out to patrol the surroundings.

Leo, sitting across from the campfire, added firewood and said.

“Is Iliana’s personality normally like that?”

“Huh? What about her personality?”

“How should I put it. She seems like she’d normally be cheerful, but she seems very intimidated.”

“Huh? How did you know Iliana was originally cheerful?”

Chelsea made a curious expression.

Then she propped her chin and slightly narrowed her eyes.

“When I look closely, it’s strange? It feels like you know us well?”

“Really?”

“Yeah.”

Chelsea smiled slightly and grabbed a tree branch rolling around nearby, broke it, and threw it into the fire.

“Iliana was originally a very cheerful kid. She talked a lot and was always lively. And she was a bit lazy, you could say?”

Chelsea made a bitter smile.

“That must have looked very bad to Rea.”

“Looked bad?”

“Yeah. She put her through extremely harsh training.”

“…”

“Thanks to that, Iliana became incredibly strong. Strong enough that I might lose if I’m not careful. But the training was so hard that her personality became a bit timid too. It’s sad to watch.”

“…It must have been difficult.”

“Yeah. But Rea did it for Iliana’s sake.”

‘…For Iliana’s sake.’

Leo, who had been narrowing his eyes, turned his head.

Shortly after, Chelsea also opened her eyes wide and looked in the direction Leo was looking.

A moment later.

Flash! Kwaaaaang—!

Iliana’s magical power surged violently.

Chelsea bolted up from her seat.

“Something must have gone wrong!”

With an urgent expression, Chelsea rushed toward where Cal and Iliana were.

Leo clicked his tongue at the clearly perceptible aura.

‘Hell Kaiser…’

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