Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 80

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 80

 

 

 

44. Alchemy Genius Dane Sogress (1)

 

 

As expected.

“M-my body won’t listen to me…”

Ernest collapsed from the recoil of the Strength Magic and trembled on the floor.

Actually, there wasn’t even time to stop him.

He got too excited as soon as he felt the power and overdid it.

“It’ll wear off soon.”

“D-Dane. Did you cast magic on me?”

“Yeah.”

“The Bodybuilding Club kids were right after all… I should compete with pure muscle…”

I wonder if he’ll start oiling up his body soon too.

“Phew. I’m dying. Oh right, Dane. Are you coming back from class?”

“Yeah. Got another graduate school offer today.”

“Ah, Professor Gabius from Military Strategy? As expected, everyone wants Dane.”

At those words, I recalled the other offers that had been made to me.

Let me see.

A few more club invitations came in.

The Spear Arts Department offered me honorary student status.

The Swordsmanship Department proposed I join their academic society.

Of course, I declined them all.

The club invitations go without saying, and I declined the Spear Arts Department’s honorary student offer because it didn’t seem necessary.

I passed on joining the Swordsmanship Department’s academic society because what I’m doing now is sufficient, and I’m too busy to pay attention to it.

It’s not like I was being considerate of Leila.

“Oh, there’s one more thing.”

“Hm?”

“Student council recruitment offers keep coming annoyingly often.”

“Ah.”

Ernest nodded as if he understood.

“That Magic Department senior?”

“Yeah.”

Altur.

5th-year representative of the Magic Department.

I already declined once, but he’s been asking every time we meet since then.

Of course, I have no intention of going.

“But isn’t the student council worth joining? I heard the privileges are incredible. You get to participate in Academy policy decisions, it’s good for networking, and it makes getting hired by the Imperial Palace easier regardless of your career path.”

There would certainly be various privileges.

But there are more interesting things than those privileges.

“I’m not really interested.”

“Well, that’s just like you, Dane.”

Ernest shrugged as if it was no big deal and continued speaking.

“Geniuses have a lot of people seeking them out. That’s kind of enviable.”

“You’re a genius too, Ernest.”

“Looking at you and Leila, I don’t feel like a genius, let alone average?”

Rather than lacking confidence like before, his answer seemed oddly envious, making me chuckle.

“Have some pride. Who else in the world could glance at a map once and memorize it all?”

It’s a perfectly good talent, and certainly worthy of being called genius.

“You think so?”

Ernest finally smiled brightly.

He definitely seems brighter than when I first met him, which is nice.

By the way, where did Leila go today?

“Oh right, Leila said she couldn’t come today because there’s a department event she has to attend. Freshmen are required to participate, apparently?”

“Really?”

Well, it is the largest department in the Academy by scale.

In contrast, my Autonomous Department is a desolate department with just 1 professor and 1 student.

Professor Keltas is probably taking a nap right about now.

“Oh right. I suddenly remembered, you said you needed supplies for exploration?”

“Oh, yeah. I was going to ask Father, but he hasn’t returned from his expedition yet.”

“…Isn’t your father the family head?”

“Yeah. He’s the family head.”

But he goes on expeditions?

“Ah, our family is originally like that. When you become family head, you don’t stay inside much. Rather, going on expeditions to bring back precious items and fill the family coffers is considered a virtue.”

There are various families in the world, and each family has its own characteristics.

Ernest’s Dylan family seemed to be like that too.

“What an interesting family. That’s fascinating.”

“Right? That’s my dream too. To become a great explorer and proudly inherit the family! Actually, my name was taken from the most famous among our previous family heads.”

“I see.”

“I’m actually thinking of visiting some ruins after midterm exams end, and I hope something comes out of there.”

“That sounds fun.”

“Right? Want to come with me?”

“I don’t see why not.”

The break is almost two months long, so there should be plenty of time. Ernest seemed happy about it.

I took out the dagger Mother had given me as a gift, Night Horn.

Actually, I have so many precious items like this that I’m not particularly interested in relic exploration.

It’s just, how should I put it.

The act of going itself is enjoyable, I suppose.

“Let’s go buy exploration equipment together later.”

“Yeah! I have everything, but we’ll need stuff for you and Leila. We’ll need anchors and crampons, climbing shoes, tents and sleeping bags…”

That’s quite a lot.

Would it be possible if I spend all my allowance?

Well, I’ll figure it out somehow.

“I’m going back to the dormitory.”

I picked up Karnas and got up from my seat.

“Hm, already?”

“Yeah. I need to go practice and study.”

“I see. Go ahead. I’ll do some more exercise before leaving.”

“Alright.”

I looked fondly at Ernest as he started doing push-ups again with great effort.

With that kind of passion, beating Bron wouldn’t be impossible.

 

 

Today is a day with no more classes.

I should go back, feed Karnas, and try out the training method I’ve been thinking about since yesterday.

I returned to the dormitory and got on the Danter Hall elevator.

But then, when I arrived at the 9th floor.

“Aaaaaaahhhhh!”

What kind of sound is that?

Looking down the hallway, it seemed to be coming from inside, where the other guys’ rooms were located.

It didn’t seem like a fight had broken out.

“Oh, Dane.”

Just then I spotted Scal.

A 2nd year in the Combat Department.

He was a guy who absolutely despised muscle worshippers like the Bodybuilding Club.

“What’s going on inside?”

I asked Scal, who looked quite calm, and Scal shook his head as if this was familiar.

“It’s because of Droyan.”

“Droyan?”

“He’s in the Alchemy Department. A 5th year. It’s a busy time for him, but especially for Alchemy Department students.”

Alchemy Department.

I didn’t know much about it, but from what I understood, they seemed to learn how to combine and decompose various substances through alchemy.

“Those guys are always experimenting and calculating, and when things don’t work out, they throw fits like that. Droyan especially does that.”

He’s suffering the pain of research.

“I don’t know why he puts himself through such trouble. Just looking at numbers makes my head feel like it’s going to explode. And the smell from all the herbs and materials he brings in for experiments is awful too.”

Scal then asked me.

“How’s the Autonomous Department?”

“Just, you know. As the name suggests.”

“Really? I don’t think I could do it even if someone forced me to. One subject alone is overwhelming. You really are amazing.”

Scal grinned and patted my shoulder, then suddenly said.

“Oh right, I heard the news.”

“What?”

“Those damn Bodybuilding Club bastards, you helped catch them, right?”

“Ah.”

News travels fast indeed.

“Just, you know, a little?”

“Thanks. You’ll receive divine blessings.”

He must really hate them.

Considering he’s even mentioning divine blessings.

“It would be fortunate if those incompetent Student Council guys actually do proper surveillance.”

“Huh?”

“They chased those stupid muscle-heads for a whole year, right? They even needed someone else’s help to arrest them, so what else would you call that but incompetence?”

So it wasn’t just me who felt that way.

“Well, anyway, they got caught. Those guys are a disgrace, a disgrace.”

Does he know that those Bodybuilding Club kids are back in the sewers dedicating themselves to muscle training again?

Scal pressed the elevator button.

“Oh right, Dane. You said you passed the Autonomous Department exam with Spear Arts, right? Want to have a sparring match sometime?”

“Sure.”

“Great. I’d like to see what the Sogress family’s Spear Arts are like. Well then, I’m off to train.”

Scal said that and got on the elevator that had just arrived.

After the doors closed, I turned around and headed to my room.

But that familiar scream came again.

“Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!”

That scream is really desperate.

Anyone would think someone’s being tortured.

“Kyu…ruk?”

Just then, Karnas poked his head out.

“Did you wake up?”

His blinking appearance was so cute that I tickled his head.

Then he quickly fell back asleep.

He really sleeps well.

Just as I was about to open my room door.

Clank!

The door across from me opened and a crazy person—no, Droyan—burst out.

His hair was disheveled and something was smeared all over his body. His eyes were bloodshot and his hands were trembling.

Either on the verge of going crazy or one step away from it.

“Damn it all!”

Probably the former, I’d guess.

“Damn alchemy!”

I heard that by 5th year, students start hating their majors, and this seemed exactly like that.

“What’s wrong?”

“Dane. You wouldn’t understand even if I told you. This damn alchemy. I should just quit and re-enroll somewhere else! Experiments, papers, research… when does it ever end!”

Droyan was thrashing about pitifully.

Even though he acts like that, Droyan is also a member of Danter Hall 9th Floor, so he must be a genius, but if such a guy is acting like this, how difficult must it be?

“How the hell am I supposed to combine Agnessweed and Yellow Bane Flower to make an antidote!”

Agnessweed?

Yellow Bane Flower?

Both are plants I know.

Because Mother taught me about them.

If it’s a combination of those two…

It can’t help but become poison, not an antidote.

Though there is a way, if not completely impossible.

“Damn professor. Damn professor! Whether you roast or boil Agnessweed and Yellow Bane Flower together, they’ll always produce poison!”

“Mm.”

I nodded.

“…Are you just pretending to know?”

“No.”

“Never mind. I shouldn’t have said anything. Damn it. Ugh.”

Droyan was fuming, and in the meantime I recalled the antidote combination method I learned from Mother.

When was it again?

Right, it was probably when Mother told me about the time she was being chased by the Drenik Empire’s assassination squad and got caught in a poison trap.

She said that although she was poisoned by a poison trap made from processed Agnessweed, she managed to escape by devising one method…

I learned that method from Mother and know it.

“It doesn’t seem that difficult.”

“What?”

“I said it’s not difficult. Making the antidote.”

“…What kind of nonsense are you talking?”

Droyan naturally didn’t believe me.

And rightfully so, since Mother had called it a ‘special method’ when she taught it to me.

“You… do you happen to have talent in alchemy too?”

“No. It’s not that. I just know a little about poisonous plants.”

If Mother had heard that, she would have definitely corrected ‘a little’ to ‘quite a lot.’

Over the past few years, while receiving assassin training, I had been taught almost everything besides direct assassination techniques.

Methods of handling poison were also one of those things.

Naturally, I had heard of or directly seen almost all poisonous plants that exist in the world…

“I’ve made antidotes a few times.”

I’ve made quite a lot of antidotes.

Though I haven’t had much occasion to use them.

“…R-really? You’re not just saying that, right?”

Maybe it’s because we’re both from Danter Hall 9th Floor.

A 5th year was asking a 1st year if it was really true.

“I just need to make the antidote, right?”

“Y-yes, that’s right, but….”

“I don’t need to record the intermediate processes or anything like that?”

“Ah, probably not?”

I can’t tell him the Decoding Method.

But if it’s just making it for him, I can do that easily enough.

Well, even if I told him the Decoding Method, it’s not like he could make it right away….

“You, you can really make it? For real?”

“Yeah. Probably.”

“You’re not lying?”

“Why would I lie about something like that.”

Droyan looked dazed.

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