Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 249

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Summoning Genius at Necromancer School — Episode 249
The four of them burned through the night, focusing entirely on preparations for underwater combat.
“Ugh, now I understand the agony of creation. Seriously.”
Dick dragged his palm across his face as he studied the blueprints.
“But after all this suffering to develop a new magic circle, what if the professors teach us something different later? Won’t we have wasted all this effort?”
Merin gave him a withering look.
“That won’t happen, you dunce.”
There had been several lessons gleaned from the second BMAT exam.
The crux of the second BMAT was how quickly one could break through the third stage, where weapons fell infinitely. In other words, the key lay in defensive capability and endurance.
Yet the professors had taught them various black magic spells related to trap detection, but not a single one had shown them how to survive weapons falling endlessly.
Ultimately, the most critical “key” to passing the exam was something students were meant to discover on their own.
Students who had sat back complacently thinking the professors would handle it themselves had all flunked spectacularly.
“Preparing is always better than not preparing.”
It was Merin’s cardinal study principle.
“Hey, and be honest.”
She glared at Dick with a threatening growl.
“You just want to slack off, don’t you?”
“Caught red-handed.”
“If I see you goofing off even once, I’ll rip those eyes right out of your skull.”
Dick waved his wrist dismissively, his expression growing sluggish.
“Ugh, I’m exhausted. The team leader’s such a perfectionist. You get it, don’t you, Kami?”
Kamibarez, who had been stroking the kittens settled in her lap, flashed a bright smile.
“I’m always cheering for Dick with all my heart!”
“……I-I’d rather you just curse at me.”
Simon’s lips curved upward as he watched his bickering teammates.
Merin lifted her head from sketching the blueprints, and when her eyes met Simon’s, her shoulders twitched slightly.
“……Hey.”
“What?”
“Why are you grinning at people’s faces like that? It’s creepy.”
“No reason.”
Just happy.
The fact that he could pull an all-nighter absorbed in a single purpose with friends.
That he was spending good time with good people.
It was simply good.
Just yesterday he’d been caught between Serne and Lorain in a vicious power struggle, so perhaps that made it stand out all the more. Today had a completely different feel.
“Energy’s crashing.”
Simon smoothly steered the conversation away, stretching languidly.
“Want to grab something sweet before we keep going?”
“That sounds great!”
Kamibarez approved, and Dick seized the moment to continue.
“We’re doing an all-night planning session anyway. While we’re at it, let’s grab some late-night snacks! You know Kinu’s sundries shop, right? They stay open till dawn during Mission Evaluation periods.”
“Hold on! Why more late-night food? Are we trying to get completely sidetracked?”
Merin objected immediately, but Simon smiled broadly.
“Once you bring it back, you always eat the most anyway.”
That single remark left Merin speechless, her face flushing crimson. Laughter erupted from all sides. Dick high-fived Simon, thoroughly satisfied.
“Then let’s pick one person by lottery and send them as punishment!”
Dick quickly marked one of four wooden chopsticks with black before instructing everyone to draw.
Simon and Merin drew in turn, and Kamibarez pulled the third chopstick.
“Kami’s the lucky one!”
The surviving teammates cheered. She rose awkwardly from her seat.
“I-I’ll be back shortly.”
“I’ll go with you.”
Simon said so, reaching for his coat, but Dick cut in immediately.
“No way, that ruins it! The whole point of the punishment is going alone!”
“Still, I can’t let a girl go out alone this late.”
Kamibarez clasped her hands together, her expression touched. Dick laughed silently to himself.
‘Wow, delivering such a sappy line without batting an eye on pure charisma alone.’
Merin nodded, apparently also uneasy about sending Kamibarez out alone.
“Then do a good job escorting her, and don’t dawdle. We’ve got a mountain of work waiting.”
“Yes!”
“I’ll be back soon.”
The two of them threw on their coats and stepped outside. The crisp night air was a sharp contrast to the warmth they’d left behind.
“Thank you for coming with me.”
Kamibarez whispered the words, her cheeks flushed. Simon smiled back at her.
She always seemed livelier at night. As he listened to her bright chatter, time seemed to move faster, more gently.
“When the four of us spend time like this, it makes our bond feel stronger somehow.”
Simon tilted his head.
“Stronger?”
“I don’t even want to imagine it, but if one of us failed the exam and we were left as three… I’d feel like such a burden.”
Simon realized she was really talking to herself.
“The happier each day becomes, the more I worry this ordinary life might shatter someday. And at the same time, it makes me want to work even harder. I… did I just ramble on?”
Simon shook his head with a soft laugh.
“I feel the same way. Let’s make sure we all survive this together.”
“Yes!”

* * *
In the end, the four of them had pulled an all-nighter.
They’d prepared the Air Storage Magic Circle for Breathing and the Jet-Black Torpedo, and to that they’d added the Mana-Powered Fins that Dic had invented.
The moment everything was finished, all four of them collapsed onto their beds and fell into something closer to unconsciousness than sleep.
By the time Simon woke, the sun stood high at noon.
The fourth and final day of the Mission Evaluation. From tomorrow, classes would resume as normal.
Meow!
Meow!
The two kittens had woken Simon. The white one was kneading his face with its tiny paws, while the black one played with his hair.
“Alright, alright.”
Urged on by the two persistent kittens, Simon rubbed his eyes and sat up. Beside him, Dic was sprawled in an absurd posture—limbs stretched like a crane—snoring softly.
“Sorry, are you hungry?”
The moment Simon got out of bed, the kittens scampered after him.
He filled the Cat Food Bowl that Kamibarez had brought with treats, and they began devouring them eagerly. Simon set out a water bowl beside it, then spent a while yawning as he cleaned up after the kittens’ morning accidents.
‘Did the girls wake up yet?’
Today was the day they were supposed to go to the beach and test the black magic they’d developed themselves.
Thinking it was time to wake them, he knocked carefully on the girls’ door.
“……?”
No response came. He couldn’t even hear them breathing.
Shielding his eyes with his palm just in case, he eased the door open.
The room was empty. The beds were neatly made, blankets folded with care.
“Where’d they go so early?”
Simon stepped out with a puzzled expression, when he heard footsteps climbing the stairs from outside.
The door opened, and Kamibarez and Merin appeared.
“Simon! Good morning!”
“Oh, you were already up?”
Simon greeted them both and asked.
“Where’d you go?”
“Just some shopping. We’re going to the beach today, after all.”
“……Shopping? For the beach?”
It was a genuinely innocent question.
Simon, who’d grown up in the mountain valleys of Reshill, had never made a habit of going to the beach.
“Yeah, there is.”
Merin winked lightly and walked into the room. She immediately noticed someone was missing and flared up like a spark.
“Hey! Wake up! You didn’t even lift a finger!”
The sound of Merin pounding Dic with a pillow echoed out.
Simon let it be and headed to the kitchen to prepare lunch.
‘The beach, huh.’

* * *
The waters near Rocksum had strong currents.
Kizen headquarters deliberately maintained the ocean’s currents, and any ship not pre-authorized was simply unable to enter. If someone foolishly ventured too close to Rocksum without permission, they’d be shipwrecked and sent to the bottom of the sea.
Only special undead could cut through those currents—the Underworld Whale or perhaps an Ancient Undead like Talaje.
Yet on the eastern coast, there was a gentle stretch of beach where swimmers from Rocksum could enjoy the water freely.
The waves and water temperature were both pleasant, and the sandy shore meant the place was crowded with students and residents every weekend.
And today was the last Mission Evaluation day—the students’ only real “holiday,” if you could call it that.
“Wow……!”
Simon’s eyes went wide as he took in the beach.
There were so many people. Students swimming or surfing, others lounging under parasols chatting or playing ball games.
‘But what in the——’
Simon’s gaze froze.
Boys and girls alike were running around in daring swimwear, their skin almost entirely exposed save for a few strategically covered areas.
For someone who’d spent nearly his entire life in the mountains, it was pure culture shock. He felt secondhand embarrassment just watching, heat crawling up his neck.
“……Simon. This is paradise.”
“Dick?”
Dick wore the most earnest expression Simon had ever seen from him.
His gaze was fixed entirely on the female students in their swimsuits.
“We’re coming back after the evaluation. Next weekend too. And the weekend after that, and the one after that, and the one after——”
“……Get a grip.”
Simon said it, but he was hardly any better off himself—equally thrown.
Was this really normal beach culture? The students his age were laughing openly, unbothered, playing without a shred of self-consciousness.
“……I have a question for you, Dick.”
“What.”
Dick kept his gaze locked forward, only his mouth moving as he answered.
“Well…….”
Simon couldn’t get the words out at first, swallowed the question, then lost the battle with curiosity.
“They’re wearing underwear under that, right?”
“Of course they are!!”
Smack!
He got hit on the back of the head from nowhere.
When Simon turned around, cradling his head, he saw Merin standing there with a face flushed crimson, holding a parasol pole.
“……!!”
Simon’s blush deepened.
He never could have imagined Merin in a swimsuit either. At least she’d covered her top with a thin cardigan of some kind.
“Ugh, hey! Don’t stare like that—it’s embarrassing!”
Merin swung the parasol pole like a weapon with a whoosh-whoosh, and Simon deftly dodged with a twist of his torso.
“……Ah, um, hello there.”
Kamibarez poked her head out from behind Merin, shy, and gave a little wave.
She was wearing a one-piece swimsuit that fit her beautifully—it drew gasps just looking at it. In one hand she carried a basket with a litter of kittens inside.
‘So that’s where they went this morning. Off to buy swimsuits.’
“Oh.”
Dick looked Merin up and down.
“You’re actually quite——”
“One more word out of you and I’m calling the campus conduct committee to have you arrested.”
Cowed, Dick shrank back with a wince.
“Aw, come on. I was just trying to compliment——”
“I told you to shut up!”
The parasol pole came down with a whomp, and Dick yelped as it caught his forearm, dropping him to the sand.
“Give me that.”
Before Merin could reduce Dick to ground meat, Simon quickly seized her weapon.
Once her temper had cooled, she gave a light cough and surveyed her team.
“Anyway, we’re here to practice Dark Magic in the field today! Absolutely—not—to play!”
“Except you went out shopping for bikinis this morning, so your pitch is a little——”
Crackle-snap-whoosh!
Merin fired ice without warning, freezing Dick’s lower half solid. He shuddered and thrashed across the sand.
“Never mind. Look over there.”
She brushed her hair back and pointed toward the water.
Yes, some students were just playing, but most were training in Dark Magic beneath the waves. Given the beach setting for the test, everyone had come to prepare for the BMAT.
“Some of them are ahead of us. Remember this: no one knows if the BMAT is this coming Sunday, next Sunday, or whenever. For all we know, today might be the last chance we get to test new magic in the water.”
The three of them nodded.
“Then let’s start testing out the new spell right now!”

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