Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 58

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 58

 

 

 

30. Let’s Make a Club (2)

 

 

Keltas Redfield.

The only professor of the Autonomous Department and the person whose leisurely life was forcibly stripped away by Dane’s enrollment.

And the professor who tried to send Dane to another department but couldn’t due to his unexpectedly impressive swordsmanship skills.

‘Damn, I said I’d look after him, but what should I do? Isn’t there some way to send this fellow to another department?’

Of course, Professor Keltas still wanted to use any method possible for the sake of his leisurely life.

The simplest thing would be for this fellow to choose a department around his second or third year and leave the Autonomous Department, but the problem is that doesn’t seem likely to happen.

So when Dane came to see him, Professor Keltas acted annoyed with his whole body.

“Yes, is there something you need?”

A professor must maintain dignity.

No matter how much he lounges around, he must maintain dignity in front of students.

Moreover, wasn’t he a former knight commander?

Even if there’s only this fellow Dane in the Autonomous Department, shouldn’t he maintain his dignity?

He shouldn’t be kind to everything and treat him like a little child.

This fellow is already an eyesore.

“I am extremely busy. So just get to the point.”

And Dane brought up his topic while hesitating more than expected.

“Yes, Professor. Actually, I came because I have a question about swordsmanship.”

“Swordsmanship?”

Professor Keltas narrowed his eyes.

“How curious. You touched my collar twice and still have questions?”

“That’s exactly why I became more curious. How can I handle opponents as leisurely as you do, Professor?”

Professor Keltas was momentarily surprised and smiled strangely to himself.

‘He’s not such an annoying fellow after all.’

It seems the Sogress Count House properly educated him in character as well. Well, from the few conversations they’d had, he didn’t seem like someone with a rotten personality.

And asking questions about swordsmanship is one of the things these overly talented fellows are worst at. Usually they live intoxicated by their own brilliance.

So Professor Keltas pondered for a moment and readily nodded his head.

“Hmm… Good. Then I’ll specially make time for you.”

“Thank you, Professor.”

“Yes, what are you curious about?”

Dane poured out questions like a storm as if he had been waiting.

“When I sparred with you last time, Professor, I felt that when turning to escape to the right, my feet got somewhat tangled. Should I say it felt like my right foot instinctively stepped forward when my left foot should have? And I don’t quite understand the feeling of instantly twisting away…”

Professor Keltas listened quietly to the questions while organizing his answers.

Even if he tried to pretend otherwise, these were questions that naturally made him pleased.

How long had it been since he received such detailed and passionate questions?

‘During my knight commander days, they were too scared to even ask me anything.’

Professor Keltas during his knight commander days wasn’t a particularly kind person.

The place was already strict with regulations, and with the commander’s personality being like that too, who would ask questions?

Perhaps that’s why seeing his ‘student’ asking questions looked quite endearing.

“…I lost sleep last night because of these concerns.”

“Huh, you lost sleep over it?”

He even says he couldn’t sleep due to his worries.

Professor Keltas pondered for a moment.

Yes, he’s someone who bothers me, but still, it wouldn’t be right to just refuse him outright.

‘Rather, it might be good to focus him on swordsmanship, train him properly, then send him off to the Swordsmanship Department.’

Since it’s come to this, trying to teach him properly once wouldn’t be bad.

“Good. If that’s your concern, I can solve it for you. Get up and follow me to the training ground.”

“Yes, Professor.”

Following Professor Keltas, Dane arrived at the training ground where he had touched his collar twice, and there he picked up a practice sword as before.

“Watch carefully what I do.”

A Hexa-level swordsman. When Professor Keltas drew up his mana, the training ground vibrated slightly.

To think he could affect the surrounding environment just by drawing up mana. Dane’s eyes gleamed with interest.

Whoosh!

The trembling of mana felt even though he only swung a practice sword.

While inwardly admiring, Dane captured Professor Keltas’s movements in his eyes.

“Will you try following along?”

“Yes.”

And Dane nearly perfectly replicated Professor Keltas’s movements with just a few sword swings.

“Huh.”

From his perspective, it was absurd.

Does it make sense to follow along just from seeing that?

For reference, Professor Keltas had swung thinking ‘let’s see you try to follow this.’ Planning to make him keep trying until he got it, since he wouldn’t succeed anyway.

But to follow along in just a few tries.

It was the same afterward too.

He demonstrated with swordsmanship the answers to all the questions asked, and Dane simply followed along with all of them.

‘Didn’t this fellow already know this stuff?’

It was absurd enough to make him think such impossible thoughts.

‘A genius. A genius. Definitely a genius.’

Even roughly estimating, the students called ‘geniuses’ in the Swordsmanship Department wouldn’t even be able to present their business cards in front of this fellow.

He even felt strangely experienced.

Like a warrior who had been in real combat for quite a long time.

Of course, a 14-year-old couldn’t have such experience.

“…I didn’t expect you to understand so quickly.”

“It’s thanks to your excellent demonstration, Professor.”

“Hehe.”

Even while pretending otherwise, Professor Keltas smiled pleasantly inside. To even have humility. This fellow was starting to grow on him.

“Yes, anything else you’re curious about?”

“I’m fine for now. If it’s alright with you, Professor, would it be okay if I come to you when I have questions in the future? Of course, I’ll make appointments in advance. Today I came to see you too suddenly…”

At his seemingly apologetic appearance, Professor Keltas unconsciously waved his hand.

“No. That can happen. Originally, a student’s duty is to be constantly curious. You did well. Hehehe.”

“Thank you for understanding, Professor.”

To think he even has proper manners. How fortunate.

‘Hmm. Maybe it wouldn’t be bad to keep teaching this fellow?’

With his mind wavering moment by moment, Professor Keltas felt good and unconsciously asked like a ‘professor.’

“Yes, how is your Academy life? I’ve been so busy I feel like I haven’t been able to look after you properly.”

“Not at all, Professor. Thanks to you caring for me like this, I think I’ll be able to enjoy Academy life going forward.”

“Hehe, what have I even done?”

Professor Keltas finally laughed pleasantly.

Then Dane smoothly and naturally continued the conversation.

“I think it will be fun going forward. I’m thinking of making a club.”

“Oh, clubs are good. You’re making one yourself? What kind of club?”

“A club that does swordsmanship training, explores the Academy, and goes on various fun adventures.”

“That sounds good.”

“But there’s a slight problem. Originally it was just a registration system, but now it’s changed to a permit system, so they say I need one professor’s recommendation.”

“Oh, really?”

Professor Keltas asked with a hint of hope.

“So what happened?”

“I’m thinking about it a bit, wondering if I should look for a decent professor.”

Professor Keltas was momentarily flustered.

‘Another professor?’

What is this fellow saying right now?

With a perfectly good professor right here in front of him!

“There’s a professor right here, isn’t there?”

“Huh? Oh, you said you were too busy, Professor, so I was worried I might be too much of a bother…”

“Huh. What nonsense. No matter how busy I am, I’m not so busy that I can’t do that much. Now, what do I need to do?”

At Professor Keltas’s words, Dane pretended to be reluctant as he explained the method.

“Hmm. Good. So I just need to go to the Academic Affairs Office, mention your name, and say I came to make a recommendation for club approval, right?”

“Yes, that’s right. But if it’s troublesome, you could just write an authorization letter separately…”

“Forget it. My only student is making a club, and I should just brush it off with some authorization letter because it’s troublesome? Don’t worry and go back.”

“Yes, Professor. Thank you.”

Dane bowed his head deeply.

And Dane’s face, cast in shadow…

Was smiling as if everything was going according to plan.

 

 

“…This actually worked?”

“Right. Dane was a student too…”

When I returned and told them I had found a professor to recommend us, both Leila and Ernest looked surprised.

“Why are you acting like this? I’m also part of a department, you know.”

“Well, that’s true. You’re the only one, so I never thought about it…”

“Right. I heard that the Autonomous Department professors don’t even attend faculty meetings and are hard to see.”

Well, that’s true enough.

“But still, how did you get it? Did you already know the professor?”

“We’re freshmen, so it’s hard for us to even talk to professors once!”

It seemed easy to talk to him though.

Anyway, I succeeded in pretending to ask about swordsmanship, winning the professor’s favor, and getting a promise to become a recommender.

I’m a freshman, and I could see he found me bothersome anyway, so if I had just gone and asked directly, it definitely wouldn’t have worked.

Plus I even got advice about swordsmanship.

Isn’t this killing two birds with one stone?

In any case, he’s nominally my supervising professor, and there’s nothing good about being on bad terms with him.

“So we’re really making a club now?”

“It’s kind of hard to believe? I thought I’d just join some random club.”

I didn’t think of it either.

If it weren’t for those damn bodybuilding club guys.

Well, this might actually be better.

Since we can do whatever we want.

“So what do we do first when we make our club? Swordsmanship training? Or treasure hunting?”

“Obviously ruins exploration! There’s a place just three days’ walk from the Academy here…”

We should decide on the club concept too.

Of course, there’s something more important than that.

“What should we name the club?”

At my question, the two who were about to bicker turned to look at me.

“Name?”

“A name would be…”

While the two pondered the name, I felt movement from my chest.

It was Karnas.

He was probably stretching while sleeping.

Come to think of it, he sleeps really well.

I briefly put him in my bag when meeting Professor Keltas earlier, but he didn’t cry from being separated, and when I put him back in my chest, he was sleeping peacefully.

Is it because he’s still young?

Whether human or animal, they sleep a lot when they’re young.

“Kyuruk…?”

Karnas seemed to wake up slightly at my touch.

“Dane, what should we name it?”

“Yeah. Anything’s fine.”

“But what are you looking at?”

“Something got on my chest.”

I made up an excuse and thought about names.

What would be good?

It’s not that important, but it also feels wrong to just name it carelessly.

That’s when it happened.

“Kyuruk?”

Karnas poked his head out from my chest.

Both people’s eyes widened.

“D-Dane. What, what is that?”

“What is that! Suddenly! D-Dane. What is that thing?”

The two stared with their mouths agape at Karnas poking his head out from my chest.

I answered simply.

“A summoned beast.”

“A s-summoned beast? When did you summon it?”

“It’s really cute…”

They nodded at the mention of summoned beast, but only briefly.

“It’s one I’m raising.”

“…Huh?”

“Raising it…?”

Leila, who seemed to know somewhat, asked me.

“What do you mean raising a summoned beast… Don’t tell me!”

I nodded.

“It’s probably what you’re thinking.”

“Really… truly… it’s a familiar?”

“Yeah.”

“…Wow.”

Leila was speechless, and Ernest seemed to still be searching for words.

“Th-uh, fam-familiar?”

The shock seems great.

“Kyuruk?”

Meanwhile, Karnas was tilting his head curiously at the two who were staring at him in surprise.

That sight was so cute that I was scratching his head with my finger when—

“Found him! There he is!”

“Dane Sogress! Finally found you! Uhahahaha!”

Ah.

Those guys again.

Don’t they ever get tired of this.

“Those guys, don’t tell me….”

Leila, who had seen the Physical Fitness Club members with me before, narrowed her eyes and looked shocked.

Can’t be helped.

“Let’s go for now.”

“Huh? Where to?”

“To the Academic Affairs Office. To register our club.”

The moment we register and establish it, those guys won’t be able to bother us as much.

We started running like that.

“Surround them!”

“Go catch them!”

In the midst of all this, I recalled the reaction Karnas had just shown.

He’s perceptive enough that he usually doesn’t reveal himself so suddenly like this.

Of course, we haven’t known each other for very long.

Which means….

Could this fellow be detecting danger?

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