Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 195

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Summoning Genius at Necromancer School 195
“Alright! Here’s where we’re staying for the next two days!”
Dietrich threw open both arms and shouted.
The four of them had arrived at the rooftop of the Clock Tower Building in the heart of Langerstin Downtown. Simon, Kamibarez, and Merin all wore expressions of pure astonishment.
“There’s an inn in a place like this?”
Directly overhead sat the famous clock tower’s luminous face. The empty space in the building had been converted into lodging.
Half the space was arranged as a dormitory with beds and furniture, while the other half opened onto a sprawling balcony furnished with a dining table.
The four of them stepped out onto the balcony.
“Wow!”
The enchanting night view of Langerstin spread before them in all its glory.
Kamibarez bounced excitedly around the space, her face aglow with delight.
“This is amazing, Dietrich! How did you even find a place like this?”
“Heh-heh.”
Dietrich folded his arms across his chest, preening.
“I know what I’m doing. If you two worked just a couple hours of part-time labor to score lodging this nice, wouldn’t you be pleased?”
“Yeah, it’s really great.”
Simon gazed out at the night view as he spoke, while beside him Merin busily pulled out sheets of oil paper and adhesive. They were the materials she’d bought from a street vendor on the way up.
“Forget that for now—get ready! The Thousand Lights ceremony starts in thirty minutes!”
“……Do we really have to do that?”
“Of course we do!”
The Thousand Lights was Langerstin’s most essential tourist ritual—every night at eight o’clock sharp, people gathered to release lanterns into the sky. Simon had witnessed it once before when he first arrived in Langerstin with Lorain.
But Simon’s reaction had been rather subdued, and Dietrich, after watching the night view for a few minutes, complained of the cold and retreated into the lodging to sprawl across a bed.
Merin let out an exasperated cry.
“No way! If you come here, you absolutely have to release lanterns! Why did you even come to Langerstin if you’re not going to do it?”
“That’s right!”
The two young women, their hearts aligned, began folding lanterns with earnest dedication.
“Merin! Isn’t that the part where we shouldn’t apply adhesive?”
“Oh no! I made a mistake! I’ll have to throw this one away!”
But it proved more difficult than expected. Seeing their struggles, Simon approached and sat down beside them, deftly folding the paper and assembling the lantern’s frame.
Kamibarez burst into admiration and clapped her hands together.
“Impressive! Is there anything you can’t make, Simon?”
He’d even salvaged the one Merin had ruined. Her lips twisted in embarrassment.
“Really, you could’ve helped earlier if you knew how to make it.”
“Ha, I don’t actually know the method. I made one when I came with Lorain before, so I suppose I retained a feel for it.”
At those words, both Merin and Kamibarez stiffened simultaneously.
“Huh? When? Why with her?”
Simon’s expression tightened slightly as he continued folding the lantern.
“Lorain helped me buy textbooks and supplies the day before I enrolled at Kizen. Back then I was newly out of my hometown and didn’t know anything, so I relied on her a lot.”
“Oh, so you’d known each other for a long time?”
“We met for the first time then.”
The two girls exchanged an odd glance, their eyes flickering toward Simon.
“Well—”
Just then, Dietrich, who had been rolling around on the bed, pulled out a drink and obliviously chimed in.
“Isn’t that something couples do together? Must be nice. If you dated the Neftis lady’s daughter, your whole life would be smooth sailing…….”
“Hey.”
Merin shot him a cold glare. It was that particular look she got before she hit someone, and Dietrich flinched reflexively.
“Huh? What?”
“Do you think you’re the only one with a mouth here? Get three more drinks—now!”
“Ugh. You’re really running me ragged.”
Dietrich shuffled toward the kitchen wearing a pitiful expression.
Simon, meanwhile, threw himself into making the lanterns with such focus that nothing could distract him. He completed four lanterns in total.
“Look! See that! People are gathering at the viewpoints!”
Kamibarez pointed toward the hillside.
Countless travelers and couples were ascending to viewpoints, hillsides, and rooftops of tall buildings, preparing to release their lanterns.
“We’ll release ours from the highest spot.”
Merin said with barely contained excitement. Whether it was the viewpoints or the hillsides, the Clock Tower Building where they stood was the highest place in the entire city.
“All right, I’ll light them now.”
They’d decided each person would release one lantern.
As the three lifted their lanterns, Simon lit each one with a candle. Last, he lit his own lantern and held it carefully by the fingertips to avoid the heat.
“Now we begin!”
Throughout the city, beautiful crimson lanterns began rising into the night sky. Simon’s group, perched at the highest point, waited for the remaining lanterns to arrive.
“Now!”
At Merin’s cry, the four of them released their lanterns in unison. The four lanterns that had departed from the Clock Tower Building ascended first into the high sky, and the fragments of light that followed joined them, painting the night city in beautiful radiance.
Watching the lanterns drift upward, the four made silent wishes.
‘May we all survive until the end of the second semester and continue wearing the Kizen School Uniform.’
Simon opened his eyes after making his wish. He gazed at the spectacle of light that blazed across the night sky like the Milky Way.
“It’s so beautiful.”
Merin spoke in a trembling voice.
“It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Kamibarez, seeing the Thousand Lights for the first time, responded with eyes alight with wonder. Dietrich laughed with a grin and lightly elbowed Simon.
“What do you think?”
Simon answered flatly.
“Your two hundred silver coins are exploding in the sky.”
“Pfahahaha!”
Dietrich doubled over with laughter. Merin shot Simon a look of exasperation, while Kamibarez covered her mouth with one hand, smiling softly.
“Well, well! Two hundred silver coins for a piece of paper is expensive!”
“Ugh, you hopeless lot. No sense of wonder at all—that’s a sickness, it is.”
After watching the lanterns for a while, the four of them settled at a table on the broad terrace and brought out wine. Simon produced the lunch box that Anna had prepared for him.
Looking at the delicious food packed tightly into the small container and the heartfelt note from Anna, all three of them wore expressions of genuine gratitude. As for the taste of the food, needless to say it was excellent.
“Simon! Please tell your mother we’re incredibly grateful!”
“I’ll bow deeply in the direction where your mother resides.”
As they ate the lunch box accompanied by wine, the three of them exchanged stories.
Two months’ worth of tales had accumulated. They all enthusiastically shared their adventures, laughing boisterously together.
“But whenever the holiday comes up, Simon gets awfully quiet.”
Dietrich observed.
“……Oh, well. I just spent it on lord’s duties.”
“Ugh, you wasted a precious holiday just sitting around.”
Simon smiled, thinking of how shocked all three would be if they learned he’d gone to the Sacred Federation.
The night deepened.

* * *
Murmuring softly, Simon carried the sleeping Kamibarez into the bedroom.
Merin lay sprawled out still in her school uniform. Her blanket had been kicked away sometime earlier.
Simon carefully laid Kamibarez beside her and pulled the blanket up over both of them. After watching the two sleep soundly, he quietly closed the door and stepped out.
“Ughhhh. I drank way too much…….”
And Dietrich, who had insisted he was perfectly fine, swayed and collapsed to the floor with a soft thud. Simon stifled a laugh.
“You only had three glasses.”
“Three glasses means I’m basically a drunkard…… mmm, bleh.”
Simon helped the tongue-twisted Dietrich up and dragged him over to a single bed, laying him down. Then he stretched with a long yawn and stepped out onto the terrace.
The cool night breeze sobered him up. Simon leaned against the terrace railing, resting his elbows on it.
Now there were no Thousand Lights, no shop illuminations—only the darkness of Langerstin spreading below.
“Is there something you wished to tell me, Father?”
At those words, a black silhouette dropped onto the terrace.
A pitch-black figure crouched with feet planted on the terrace and knees bent, staring at Simon.
“When did you know?”
“From when we released the lanterns.”
Dietrich, the Vampire Lord, let out a low chuckle.
“I’ve lingered too long. I must leave Langerstin now.”
“I understand. Kamibarez and I—”
“Kamibarez is defective.”
At those words, Simon’s expression hardened.
“In vampire society, where strength and power are the only virtues and the strong devour the weak, she cannot possibly survive. Neither in power nor in spirit.”
“Is there a parent who calls their own child defective?”
“Bold-faced one.”
When he bared his teeth in a grin, his fangs cast a fearsome shadow.
“I am a Vampire Lord. No matter that she is my daughter, as the leader guiding my entire clan, I cannot show personal sentiment.”
“Still, it seemed you cared for Kamibarez a great deal.”
“It is my burden to bear.”
His gaze turned toward Langerstin, shrouded in darkness.

“People believe themselves exceptional, pioneers of their age, but history merely repeats itself. Everything flows as it must.”
His voice settled with deliberate calm.
“Defeated by a moment’s primal urge, I lay with a human woman, and she conceived my child. For a human body to bear a vampire’s offspring—it was a trial beyond endurance.”
A vampire child kills its human mother. Knowing this, they still joined their bodies.
“I lost the woman I loved most because of it. And I brought Kamibarez into the world not as a perfected vampire, but as something defective. That was when I first tasted failure. It is all my sin.”
Deep regret flickered in his eyes.
“Then let me ask you the reverse. All of that—meeting Kamibarez’s mother, loving her.”
Simon spoke with a cold expression.
“Can you truly call it failure?”
……
The vampire lord’s mouth fell silent.
“No.”
“Then we’re done here.”
Simon smiled faintly.
“Nothing unfolds purely as it should, or according to plan, or by design alone. I don’t think what happened to you was some fleeting impulse—I believe it was an inevitability that brought Kamibarez into being.”
“Kha-ha-ha-ha-ha!”
Dietrich’s laughter rang out with resonant force.
Simon flinched and glanced behind him, but fortunately no one had stirred at the sound.
“A brat who hasn’t lived even a fraction of my life, spouting such wisdom!”
Yet there was a simplicity to it that held its own appeal. Dietrich swept his cloak around himself.
“I entrust my daughter to your care.”
“Yes. I will look after her.”
With only those words, Dietrich’s form dissolved into countless bats and vanished.
Simon’s bright expression faded as he released a breath of relief.
‘That was… incredibly nerve-wracking.’
Simon turned back toward the dormitory.

* * *
The next morning.
Now only one day remained before classes resumed. Simon had assumed today would be filled with nothing but pleasant surprises.
But it all began when Merin discovered that Dietrich hadn’t completed half his holiday homework.
“This lunatic! Seriously! He didn’t finish half his assignments!!”
At Merin’s outburst, Dietrich sweated profusely and offered excuses.
“I-I was planning to do it with all of you.”
“Planning to do it with us is not the same as asking for help! This won’t do! Hand over all your completed homework!”
Simon and Kamibarez, who had been sleeping peacefully, were suddenly conscripted into homework inspection duty.
Kamibarez’s situation was better than Dietrich’s, but gaps appeared throughout her work from her focus on personal training; Simon had been diligent enough, yet his written exam scores in every subject except Summoning Magic were weak, leaving him with considerable errors.
“……Seriously. Seriously.”
The Group Leader pressed her forehead, then covered her face with her palm. The remaining three members stood before Merin in rigid attention, stealing nervous glances.
“……You’ve wiped away all my sentimentality from yesterday, you idiots. What’s this about a thousand lights and sipping wine while watching the night view?”
She swept her gaze across all three with chilling indifference.
“If this keeps up, the moment we arrive at Kizen you’ll receive the lowest scores and face handicaps, crawling around pathetically! Especially you, Dietrich! You’re heading straight into eternal vacation! Don’t you know Professor Jane’s temperament? Two months away and you’ve lost all your edge?”
Dietrich forced a smile and clasped his palms together.
“C-come now, you’re getting too worked up. Let’s calm down first. And even if we’re scolded, at least let the reason be clear…….”
“Reason? You said reason?”
She pulled out one of Dietrich’s assignments—a Blood Magic worksheet.
“The question was: ‘Discuss the handicap faced by the caster when using Cataphoresis Blood Flow Magic.’ And Dietrich’s answer.”
She ground her teeth as she spoke.
“‘When blood leaves the body, one becomes dizzy.’ Is that what you submitted as your answer, you madman?!”
“Well, it’s blood-based black magic, so it’s not entirely wrong…….”
Merin immediately hurled the stack of assignments at him, and Dietrich took them full in the face, stumbling backward.
“I’m losing my mind! I actually thought I could trust these group members for the entire second semester!”
Group class continued into the second semester.
If a teammate’s grades fell enough to remove them from Kizen, or if some other handicap forced them to neglect group assignments, the victim would only be the remaining members.
Kamibarez clasped her hands together and laughed nervously, trying to defuse the anger with an adorable tone.
“……Um, mom.”
“Be quiet, Kamibarez. Don’t expect any gentle words from me this time.”
Realizing there was no escape, Kamibarez stiffened her posture with a tense expression. Simon attempted a smile and spoke.
“Surely I’m better off?”
“You’re all the same, you fools! Until you finish all of this, you’re not setting one foot outside the dormitory!”
Group Leader Merin gathered up an armful of mangled holiday homework from her scattered team members and dropped it on the table with a shout.
“Right now! Start over!”
“Yes!”
The three of them immediately picked up their quill pens and began the assignment. In the midst of it all, Dietrich thrust his thumb upward and spoke with characteristic optimism.
“Proof positive—holiday homework can only be conquered by cramming it all at once.”
“Want me to drop you off the Clock Tower Building to prove gravity?”
Dietrich’s head swiveled straight back to his homework.

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