Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 219

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 219

147. Danter Cup (2)

Daily sparring sessions with Professor Keltas and Professor Ingrid continued.

In fact, looking at their expressions, they seemed to greatly welcome these sparring sessions under the pretext of my Danter Cup participation.

Of course, that didn’t mean they didn’t want me to win.

“You’ve gotten better. Your thrust was already perfect, but the timing has improved.”

“It’s thanks to your teaching.”

“No. Honestly, I was a bit worried. I was afraid I might ruin the talent that my senior had taught so well by trying to teach you. But… at this rate, you’ll surpass me in a few years.”

I brushed off her words with laughter.

In terms of battlefield experience, I wouldn’t be inferior to Professor Ingrid, but she must have grown more while I was growing up in this second life.

Anyway, a professor is a professor.

Same with Professor Keltas – when facing Professor Ingrid with sword and spear respectively, it would be difficult for me to win.

Though it might be a different story if special mana, magic, and summoning arts were added.

“Dane, why are you only coming now!”

And I wasn’t only sparring with the professors. I also sparred with Leila and Dorian.

However, with these two, it was more teaching than sparring.

Both of them requested help from me to focus on supplementing their weak points rather than just sparring.

“Here I come again.”

In Leila’s case, she chose the method of blocking my unlimited fierce attacks.

Rather than meaning she would block my attacks, it was about developing ways to defend at the right time and place.

Actually, despite learning the balanced Termion swordsmanship, Leila was slightly biased toward offense.

This was probably due to her superior talent compared to others.

If you have better talent than others, you’d usually attack more often than defend.

“Ugh!”

So she couldn’t keep up with the irregular attacks I hadn’t shown in sparring until now, or rather, hadn’t had occasion to show yet.

“Huff, gasp! Whew!”

Eventually, she declared a brief rest and asked me accusingly.

“Just how much can you do?”

“What?”

“Those attacks just now! I really felt like I was receiving Father’s attacks!”

If it’s Duke Termion, he’s someone who’s been through the battlefield thoroughly, so he’d be at least as good as me, if not better.

I chuckled.

“So, are you giving up?”

“Who said I’m giving up? I’m just saying let’s rest for one minute… Really… it’s on a different level…”

Leila looked dejected but soon gathered her strength and continued practicing defending against my attacks.

And next was Dorian.

“As you well know, it’s not easy to defend against opponents with weapons, and approaching them isn’t easy either.”

Dorian seemed to be troubled by the fundamental problem of being a ‘martial artist.’

Once you get close, it’s not easy to respond no matter what weapon they’re holding, except for daggers.

This is because weapons need a minimum distance to swing or thrust, but the human body doesn’t.

So Dorian naturally seemed to be looking for ways to approach opponents who wouldn’t allow him to get close.

And I know that method to some extent.

The battlefield is an environment where you have to make do with your gums if you don’t have teeth.

“So what should I do, Teacher Dane?”

“You need to develop dynamic visual acuity and reaction speed. First, mana training comes first.”

Dorian’s level was still slightly below Dual-class.

The urgent priority was to have him train his mana to reach Dual-class first.

And then…

“Whoa! Too fast!”

“I’m going at this speed.”

“Fi… five?”

“Wrong. Eight.”

“My goodness…”

Improving dynamic visual acuity by counting the number of fast-moving objects, and then-

“Ugh! Argh!”

“You’ll keep getting hit like that.”

“Whoop!”

Practicing reflexes by catching flying objects.

“If you keep whining, I’ll make you deflect Ernest’s arrows.”

“Bu, but it’s too fast!”

“Or should we do it with Karnas’s flames?”

“Kree-ruk!”

“I, I’ll definitely catch them!”

Dynamic visual acuity allows you to gauge the trajectory and timing of weapons the opponent swings to prevent approach.

Reflexes naturally increase the probability of deflecting those weapons.

And I took special measures here.

“No weight training until the Danter Cup.”

Lightning probably struck in his head.

Dorian asked with the expression of someone receiving a death sentence.

“Why, why… Why are you trying to distance me from the beauty of muscles…?”

“Because you’re slow.”

Currently, Dorian has bulging muscles all over his body, but thanks to that, he’s somewhat slow.

There was a need to reduce muscle mass even a little to make his body lighter.

“…But I cannot betray my loyalty to muscles.”

“Then get eliminated in the preliminaries.”

“…”

Dorian began to hold his head and groan in agony, like a child fiercely contemplating whether to choose mom or dad.

Of course, persuasion was simple.

“It’s a temporary farewell. Then you’ll come back and meet again.”

“…”

“Don’t you want to become stronger?”

“…I’ll do it.”

Good.

With this, I’ve eliminated one muscle man.

Once he feels himself getting stronger this way, he’ll start seriously considering muscle building from then on.

No matter how much you build muscle, it might increase your strength, but it can’t block blades or arrowheads.

Unless you’re being sold as a bonsai to some muscle-loving noble.

Anyway, while these two were suffering, the others seemed to be having a different conversation.

“But did you get tickets? I looked into it and they’re really hard to get.”

At Ernest’s words, Priscilla shrugged her shoulders.

“I won’t be in the audience seats anyway, so there’s nothing to get. And I’ll probably see it from the closest distance. I have to jump in right away if something happens.”

“I’m jealous… but if I say that, I’ll get hit with divine power, right?”

“Ernest. Have you become more lively lately?”

And Altur had a gloomy expression.

“…I failed to get them.”

“Ah. It really must be difficult.”

“Originally, Professor Denabo would generously get us a ticket or two for the preliminaries…”

“Ah… right now…”

Getting tickets seems to be quite difficult.

Well, even in today’s lecture, everyone was only talking about tickets.

It’s not just an event for Academy students, but the entire Empire is buzzing and the capital is packed, so naturally it would be like this.

“I heard even preliminary ticket prices have skyrocketed. At this rate, we can’t even dream of the finals.”

“I heard they’re even charging admission fees for the text scoreboard broadcasts?”

“They’re planning to collect tons of taxes with this opportunity.”

“If I had known this would happen, I should have at least submitted an application. Would they not let me if I said I’d compete with a bow? Then even if I get eliminated in the preliminaries, I’d get to go inside the arena and watch!”

“Ernest seems a bit different lately…”

Ernest came up with a novel idea, but participating in a competition just to watch it is quite funny.

Tickets.

I wondered if I could get some by asking my sisters, but I found out shortly after.

“…Dane. You don’t happen to have any tickets coming in or anything…?”

“Mmm…”

“Sigh… I can’t watch this again this year…”

Maybe it’s because our family is in the Southern Region.

Both Big Sister and Little Sister sighed.

Anyway, the fact is that even my sisters don’t have any tickets at all. More precisely, there’s no way to get them.

“Ticketing is really fierce. Really that… absolutely no method works.”

“You have to stay up all night at least a week in advance, and for final tickets you need to start at least two weeks early. But I’m busy to death with research and writing papers, how can I do that.”

That’s how it is.

So there are people who stand in line as proxies, and magic and trickery run rampant, but I heard if you get caught, the Imperial Palace punishes severely.

Anyway, it’s like a war.

I don’t need tickets separately, but not everyone can participate.

Therefore, there were quite a few people who became gloomy whenever tickets were mentioned…

Two days later.

One week before the Danter Cup opening.

“Well then, I’ll end today’s lecture here.”

Just as I was about to get up after listening to the Swordsmanship Department lecture, the lecture hall door opened and a rather well-dressed man entered.

“Excuse me, is Dane Sogress here?”

At those words, everyone’s gaze turned toward me.

I wondered what it was about, but when I heard, it was something I never expected.

“I’m a special courier from the Imperial Palace. I’m here to deliver this item to you.”

I was more surprised by how fancy the special courier’s outfit was than by the fact that a special courier came from the Imperial Palace.

“What is it?”

“I don’t know the contents either. You can open it and see for yourself.”

The special courier showed the Imperial Palace seal to prove his identity. I nodded and asked.

“Then who sent it?”

“The sender is His Highness Prince Edward Danter.”

At those words, exclamations full of surprise burst out from all directions.

“My goodness… is it real?”

“I’ve never seen this before… so that’s how the Imperial Palace sends gifts?”

“I saw it before. When Father received a commendation!”

“Amazing… does it make sense for someone to receive a gift from the Imperial Palace at the Academy?”

The special courier, as if accustomed to such situations, confirmed my identity, got a signature on the receipt, and left just like that.

Passing through gazes full of anticipation, I headed to Bonia’s Forest for now.

With 3 days left until the Danter Cup opening, I can see the fellows concentrating on training.

“Dane, you’re here?”

And when I arrived, they gathered around me in small groups, curious about what I was holding.

“But what’s that? A gift?”

“Yeah. A special courier from the Imperial Palace came and delivered it.”

“…Who came from the Imperial Palace?”

Instead of explaining the whole story, I untied the string and unwrapped the package.

And inside was what everyone except me wanted.

“Th, this…”

“Is this what I think it is…?”

“Go, goodness…”

They were tickets.

And there were five youth division viewing tickets of each type.

Preliminaries, Semifinals 1, Semifinals 2, and Finals.

Even more…

The seats were first class.

“These… I heard you could buy a house if you sold them…”

Priscilla’s worldly muttering.

Those words probably aren’t an exaggeration.

Right now there are plenty of people who would give their lives for one ticket.

I guess you could say it’s a competition guaranteed to have that much tradition and entertainment.

“Wait a moment.”

I first tried to communicate with Edward.

The signal went through a few times, then I heard a welcome voice.

-Dane, haha. Since you contacted me, it seems you received the gift I sent.

“Your Highness. This precious thing.”

-Oh no. I won’t listen to words like ‘I’m deeply grateful,’ ‘I’m overwhelmed,’ and such! Just a simple ‘thank you’ is enough.

“Thank you. But something this precious…”

A pleased voice.

-Haha. I’m a prince after all.

And I heard a quite convincing reason too.

-Of course it’s a precious item to me too, but one of my elder brothers is away somewhere right now, so his portion was allocated to me. So if there are friends around you who couldn’t go, share them well. I heard they’re very difficult to obtain.

Difficult indeed.

Just seeing them drooling like this now, it’s an obvious fact.

-And I sent some to your family too, so they should arrive soon. Oh, they should have gone to Duke Termion House too. Is Leila there beside you?

“Yes, Your Highness! But since I’m also participating, I think Father and Mother will come together!”

-Ooh. The fact that they’re coming together means the Duchess has recovered considerably?

“Yes, that’s right. It’s thanks to you, Your Highness.”

-Haha. That’s fortunate. It’s divine providence.

Edward’s cheerful voice continued.

-How is it, the gift for my friend. Isn’t it splendid? Though it’s nothing but dust compared to the gifts you’ve given me.

I smiled and answered.

“It’s a very good gift.”

Of course I can’t use them myself.

But with these, I can take care of the people around me.

-Well then, let’s meet on the day of the competition. I have no doubt that you’ll win.

“I’ll definitely see you, Your Highness.”

As a bonus, I also received loyalty pledges.

“Dane, I… I’ll do everything. Whatever you tell me to! Everything!”

“…Dane. I’ll do anything. If you tell me to be your assistant for a year, I’ll do it.”

Ernest and Altur.

“I’m going to quit the Theology Department.”

And even Priscilla, who’s ready to quit the selection right now, take these tickets, and switch careers to being a spectator.

Now with not much time left until the Danter Cup opening-

At this moment, I felt like I had become the richest person in the world.

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