Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 45

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 45

 

 

 

20. You Said I Could Throw Multiple Times, Right?

 

 

The events held at the Academy Plaza during the new semester are mostly marketing efforts by clubs and academic societies to recruit new members.

This is because the Academy isn’t just a place for narrow academic study involving textbooks and exams.

Of course, there are also cases focused on making money rather than such marketing.

Like con artists who keep appearing despite being cracked down on by the Disciplinary Committee, or fellows who sell low-quality goods to unsuspecting freshmen claiming they’re Academy essentials.

There were also cases like now, where events such as roulette spinning or dagger throwing were held with prizes as bait.

“Come, come! Just invest one Crown Silver Coin and break even! Special event for this year’s freshmen! Even the 5th place prize is a Mana Storage Orb worth a whopping 2 Crown Silver Coins! Speaking of this Mana Storage Orb, it’s absolutely essential as you can store mana in advance and add it when needed!”

Kentner Drife, a 5th-year Finance Department student who was the host promoting the event with his booming voice, smiled contentedly inside as he watched the freshmen eagerly offering their silver coins.

This year was truly a bumper crop of Crowns.

Dagger throwing.

It looks quite easy, but for fellows doing it for the first time, even hitting something with a throw is a difficult skill.

The grip must be proper, and the timing of releasing the dagger is important too.

Given the weight, there are countless cases where it doesn’t even reach the target.

“Oh no! So close! How about it, would you like to try one more time?”

“One more challenge!”

Kentner giggled inside at the sight of freshmen charging in with stubborn determination.

As expected of those from noble backgrounds.

A few Crown Silver Coins are treated like pocket dust to them.

‘This year’s going to be another great haul!’

If he could suck up this much easy money every semester, becoming rich would be no trouble at all.

The risk was almost nonexistent too.

As he said, the prizes really were worth more than one Crown Silver Coin each, but dagger throwing was just so difficult.

‘Since it targets freshmen, this business will keep thriving.’

It was just as Kentner was thinking this.

“I’d like to try.”

A silver-haired boy and a rose-haired girl approached.

Strangely familiar.

He’d never seen them before, so what could it be?

‘Silver hair… where have I seen that? Or maybe heard about it?’

Of course, what mattered wasn’t that, but the fact that these two freshmen were customers.

Kentner greeted them with a business smile plastered across his face.

“Oh my, welcome! You’re freshmen, right? Come, come, just pay one Crown Silver Coin here. Have you tried dagger throwing before?”

“Yes.”

The silver-haired boy who answered briefly, Dane, took the dagger from Kentner and stood in front of the target disc.

“By any chance, can I throw this multiple times?”

“Of course! As long as you have the silver coins!”

The host’s lips curled upward.

He’d caught a big fish.

A rich Young Master from a noble family who gets stubborn after missing and keeps challenging until he hits was truly the best kind of customer.

Whirrrrr.

The target disc began spinning as if it had been waiting.

Kentner shouted excitedly.

“Alright, get ready and throw!”

Kentner looked at the long line of clueless freshmen behind them and smiled happily.

After repeating this for several years, word had spread, so now they wouldn’t even come unless he had pretty impressive prizes.

Thanks to that, he’d been cleaned out preparing quite expensive prizes.

Especially that 1st place prize, the ‘Treasure Map’, was the item Kentner had invested the most money to obtain.

It was definitely authentic since he’d purchased it from the Akeder Auction House with guaranteed authenticity.

Though it was a blind auction, it was still an item from the Akeder Auction House anyway.

In fact, it was thanks to this item that Kentner was able to hold this dagger throwing event with the mindset that this would be his last.

‘It has to be at least this good for the kids to come.’

Indeed, everyone’s attention was focused on the ‘Treasure Map’ part.

But among them, there wouldn’t be many fellows who could even take home the 5th place prize.

So even just collecting one silver coin from each would not only break even but leave a huge profit.

‘At best they’ll hit last place anyway.’

Just as he was thinking that.

Dane looked at the spinning target disc, then gripped the blade part rather than the handle of the dagger he’d received, positioning himself with the handle pointing upward.

A completely different stance from all the previous freshmen who just grabbed it roughly and threw.

Just as Kentner was thinking ‘no way’—

Whoosh!

Thunk!

The dagger flew at a speed he’d never seen before and embedded itself precisely in the target disc.

“Wooow!”

“Did you see that?”

Amid the rising admiration, the target disc with the embedded dagger gradually slowed down.

Kentner gulped down his dry saliva.

‘It can’t be, surely not.’

This kind of thing happened occasionally.

What you might call a lucky shot.

A case of hitting it through good fortune.

But even those never escaped the 5th place prize area, which was the widest section of that target disc.

He’d take a bit of a loss, but what of it.

“Ooooh!”

Then the target disc slowed down a bit more and gasps arose.

The place where the dagger was stuck wasn’t 5th place.

Which meant…

“Huh? Isn’t that 1st place?”

“1st place? Really?”

“There, there! The red dot!”

Impossible words were being heard.

It was real.

When the gradually slowing target disc finally stopped, he could see it.

“Th-this can’t be.”

Just one.

Exactly one, in the red dot that he’d placed thinking it could never be hit…

Very precisely, the dagger was embedded there.

“It really is 1st place!”

“Wow! Good heavens!”

“Did he really hit it? Really?”

“I couldn’t even get near the target disc…”

Everyone cheered.

And for good reason, since the people here now were either those who couldn’t hit it at all, or hit 5th place at best, or those who couldn’t even muster the courage to try.

But someone stepped forward and didn’t just hit it, but precisely hit the very small dot on the spinning target disc.

Thanks to this, Kentner was completely stunned.

‘My, my dream… my assignment…’

By the way, this wasn’t just simple money-making.

Finance Department.

Befitting a department that studies economics and money, this was part of an assignment, and an activity that would soon be used as Kentner’s wonderful assignment topic.

But it was ruined.

Was this what the Professor had so emphasized as ‘the economics of unexpectedness and variables’?

No matter how perfect a plan you make, variables are bound to come.

In a case like now…

“Wait, isn’t that fellow Dane Sogress?”

“Oh, you’re right? Silver hair, right?”

“Is the girl next to him Leila Termion? Rose-colored hair, right?”

It was precisely the variable called Dane Sogress.

‘Dane Sogress?’

Come to think of it, I had heard of him.

This year’s top freshman admission.

First autonomous major acceptance in 50 years.

The youngest son of Count Sogress, the war hero’s family.

It was far too big a variable.

“R-red dot, first place…”

Kentner shouted with barely managed trembling voice.

Still, he had to give the prize.

That was the iron rule.

Paying the price for goods.

That was the logic of economics.

“Thank you.”

Kentner handed over the case containing the treasure map with still trembling hands.

However, the variable was just beginning.

“You said I could throw multiple times, right?”

“What?”

“I’ll throw again.”

Dane rummaged through his pocket and pulled out several silver coins.

Kentner’s mouth fell wide open.

But that wasn’t the end.

“Ah, you’re trying to take everything by yourself? That’s mean!”

“What, you want to throw too?”

“Of course. I have a mana core too, so I might be able to hit it, right?”

Even Leila, who was beside him, stepped forward.

Drip.

A single tear began to flow down in Kentner’s heart.

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Having thoroughly swept up the prizes, Leila and I headed to the student cafeteria with great satisfaction.

We had spent more time than expected, but it seemed like there was enough time for lunch. On the way, I tried injecting mana into the ring.

The items stored in the spatial storage were projected with mana as if they were right before my eyes.

I naturally couldn’t feel the actual weight, but this feeling was quite heavy.

Leila looked enviously at the ring that Big Sister had given me as a gift.

“…Having an inventor sister is really nice. Sister Arabella is incredibly famous in magic engineering.”

“Really?”

“Don’t you even know your Big Sister is famous?”

I didn’t really know to what extent.

Both Big Sister and Little Sister didn’t really boast about themselves in front of me.

So looking at it, Leila seemed to know more about their external image and achievements than I did.

“Your Big Sister is an incredibly famous person. Almost legendary, legendary. Your Big Sister was the one who made communication devices the size of a person’s head smaller than a fist and made them portable, and she also made teleport magic, which was only used for really important occasions because you had to draw magic circles every time, usable at each base by creating fixed devices!”

She really knows well.

“On top of that, she made mana mirrors that help with skin care, and dramatically lowered the production cost of spatial storage devices. Sister Arabella is truly everyone’s idol!”

So our Big Sister was such an amazing person.

I looked at the spatial storage ring that Big Sister had given me as a gift. I could almost feel Big Sister’s love.

“You’re incredibly lucky, you know?”

“I know. Thanks to you, I learned even more.”

“I’m envious, so envious. Our brothers are also Academy graduates but I can’t even see them…”

Leila’s brothers were also quite famous at the Academy. But unlike our sisters, she couldn’t see them. They each worked outside the Academy.

“Ah, whatever. So how many prizes did we win?”

“Um, 20 mana storage stones and 15 lunch vouchers, 5 regular meal vouchers. 8 store vouchers and…”

Looking at it, we won quite a lot.

But it was so much fun, wasn’t it?

I guess it was because I usually don’t get to throw daggers.

“And the treasure map.”

“What do you think that really is? A treasure map?”

“According to the Finance Department senior who was running it, it’s something bought from a blind auction at Akeder Auction House?”

“Akeder Auction House?”

Leila’s eyes widened.

Akeder Auction House.

I remember Father often telling me about it.

A place where rare and beautiful items from across the Empire gather together, and where the Empire’s finest appraisers thoroughly authenticate and handle only genuine items.

If it was truly bought from there, it was naturally trustworthy.

“Then it’s definitely authentic, right?”

“Yeah. The seal here is intact too.”

Since it had never been opened, it seemed that senior hadn’t examined what was inside properly.

Unfortunately, it was now in my hands, but what could be done?

It just happened to be dagger throwing.

“An Academy treasure map… I did hear that the Academy has tons of secret places and mysteries.”

Leila seemed to have heard something as she muttered and her eyes sparkled.

“Then what do you think is on that treasure map?”

“Well. We’ll have to open it to find out, right? Let’s open it together later.”

There’s one person who comes to mind.

Ernest Dylan.

The moment I heard about the treasure map, I smiled thinking of the fellow who would probably go crazy.

Grumble.

Then came the sound of my stomach clock.

It seems we delayed too much time.

“Let’s eat first.”

“Good. I’m really hungry.”

“We can use these meal vouchers, right?”

“Right. We won meal vouchers as prizes earlier, right? Let’s try using them.”

We hurried our steps toward the student cafeteria like that.

By the way, I thought I heard screaming from somewhere, but it was probably my imagination, right?

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