Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1095

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Chapter 1095

‘This is serious.’

Lee Han looked at the mountain of letters with a grave expression.

The Empire people were much more informed about rumors than Lee Han had thought, and they had no hesitation in taking action.

Even though the semester hadn’t started yet, this many letters had already piled up.

He couldn’t predict how many more would fly in once the semester began.

‘At least the good thing is that letters won’t fly to my room once the semester starts.’

Who would have thought the Skeleton Principal’s censorship would be this helpful.

Lee Han began tearing open the letters to dismantle them.

“Gainando!”

“!”

Gainando, who was hiding in the closet playing mage cards, was startled.

Had he been caught?

“Gainando who’s playing mage cards in the closet!”

“…Why?”

Gainando walked out with a face full of awkwardness, embarrassment, and shame.

The friend who had been playing with him in the closet looked at Gainando with resentful eyes.

‘This bastard. He said we’d never get caught.’

“I’m going to open letters, so please check for curses.”

“Okay…”

Gainando prepared magic obediently like a gentle sheep.

If he worked hard, maybe the punishment for his closet hiding crime would be a little lighter.

“But Lee Han. Why are you checking for curses?”

He wondered if they might be letters sent by Baldrogard students.

If that were the case, there was a good possibility they had cursed the letters before sending them.

“These are letters from all over the Empire, so I can’t be careless. I’ll check with my senses, but it won’t hurt to inspect them once more. You have reagents, right? Check them.”

Gainando nodded and took out his reagent pouch.

As a student of the dark magic school, he could perform curse detection even with his eyes closed.

He drew a simple magic circle by extracting a little fresh blood from his fingertip, placed a silver scale on top of it, and weighed the curse…

“Gainando. You’re missing one letter in the magic circle. The efficiency will drop.”

‘How did he see that?’

Gainando was shocked by his friend’s observation.

He definitely wasn’t even looking this way, so how!?

“Once you confirm there’s no curse, read who sent it and pass it over.”

“Okay. I’ll read the letter from Grandhen City first. It’s a letter sent by Mage Puyo who runs 【Banyan Tree Staff】.”

“I see. That person sent one too.”

“Yoner’s sister also sent one.”

“Meikin? I received one earlier. Did I put it over there by any chance?”

Lee Han checked the letters with confusion.

Surprisingly, it was true that Yoanen had sent another one.

To Yoner’s friend

I’m writing this in case you might refuse the request because of what Yoner said…

“…Thank you. Put it aside.”

“Asan also sent one. Special Administrator of Grandhen City.”

‘Just how many came from Grandhen City alone?’

Suppressing his fear, Lee Han opened the letter.

During this vacation, I was deeply moved to hear the story of how you met my twin sister Hidan and solved Einrogard’s financial problems, and I trust your abilities enough to entrust you with work. I’d like you to bring Asan, but if he seems unqualified, please scold him instead…

‘I should tell Asan that his family misses him terribly.’

Lee Han quickly distorted the letter’s contents for his friend’s sake.

If he doesn’t bring him, then he doesn’t bring him – why ask someone else to scold him?

“Greenvell family, oh. Prince Bogajun is here too.”

“!”

Prince Bogajun was one of the many ordinary non-dragon imperial family members in the Empire.

He did receive support from various guilds, families, and magic towers, but from Lee Han’s perspective, having recently been tormented by dragons…

‘Honestly, would there ever be a chance for a non-dragon imperial family member to become emperor?’

Even if all the nobles in the Empire joined forces and said ‘Your Majesty, please abdicate soon,’ it would be questionable, but since a considerable number of the great noble families were saying ‘Haha, Your Majesty, please stay forever,’ honestly even dragon imperial family members seemed to have difficulty becoming emperor.

Much less an ordinary (though Bogajun would be angry to hear that) imperial family member.

“It’s the person I met at the mansion last year.”

He remembered not only Bogajun but also Imperial Princess Judrantes (who was competing against Bogajun – she was roughly the twenty-something-th, but he couldn’t remember that far) looking at Lee Han very greedily.

“I should just postpone this one. Gainando. Put it aside.”

“L-Lee Han. You’re not avoiding meeting other imperial family members because of me, are you?”

Gainando looked at his friend with slightly moved eyes.

Having his close friend Gainando around while continuously maintaining contact with other external imperial family members could have a negative impact on Gainando’s reputation.

Could his friend be acting like that with that in mind?

Lee Han was surprised.

While Gainando wasn’t a stupid friend, he definitely wasn’t a friend who showed intelligence in such political matters?

“You were thinking about such things!?”

“Actually, I was just repeating what Moradi said.”

* * *

-Ugh. Senior Yukveltire and Adenart too – why do all the imperial family members torment Lee Han like this?

Gainando, frustrated that his chance to have fun had disappeared, grabbed the passing Giselle and complained.

At that appeal, Giselle looked at Gainando with the eyes of someone looking at the Empire’s greatest trash.

What is this guy, who’s the leader of those tormenting imperial family members, babbling about?

Still, Giselle suppressed her anger and explained as calmly as possible. This wasn’t some unseen mountain area of Einrogard, but a mansion in the capital.

-…There are probably political considerations too. Even if they’re from the same magic school, if you’re only close with one imperial family member, it could cause misunderstandings. He probably doesn’t want to receive unnecessary external pressure either?

People who checked or suspected Gainando were extremely rare in the Empire, but if he showed a particularly close relationship with the next Archmage of the Wardanaz Family, the story would be different.

It would be sufficient evidence for people to think ‘Could that prince be…?’

-What? Then what Moradi is saying is that Lee Han is forced to associate with those nasty people because of me?

-It’s not necessarily because of you, but for maintaining balance, there would be some of that reason…

-Thanks! I need to go confront those two right away!

-Moradi. Hold back! You can’t beat up that prince here!

* * *

“…You managed not to get beaten up. And Moradi over-interpreted it. He likes politics too much. I’m just trying to avoid troublesome situations with too many letters.”

“I see. Still, if anyone asks, can I say it’s because of me rather than Adenart?”

“No.”

Gainando grumbled and continued inspecting the remaining letters.

After checking all the letters from not only Grandhen City but also other places, nearly half a day had passed. Lee Han sighed.

‘No matter how much I refuse, there’s a limit. Even if I only take the requests I absolutely must accept, one semester will be completely full.’

There were even proposals from Baldrogard, Callarogard, and Petrogard.

Baldrogard aside, why would magic schools entrust requests to external mages?

Everyone pay attention!

“!”

“Huff, huff! Is it Einrogard?!”

One of the dozing students, hit by the Skeleton Principal’s glare, mistook it for Einrogard and hurriedly got up.

“Phew. We’re still outside.”

His Majesty wants to personally escort you all.

“Prince Jowurin?!”

Lee Han was shocked and confronted the Skeleton Principal.

He seemed to be letting his guard down as the vacation was ending, but maybe he should let him know that he could still receive more complaints.

The Skeleton Principal looked at his disciple as if looking at a madman.

Of course it’s Prince Uman. Are you crazy?

“Ah.”

As the students gathered with murmurs, Uman began his prepared speech.

“Thank you all for gathering. I’m truly delighted to see the young pillars of the Empire and the mages who will be responsible for our future!”

“He seems like a good person!”

The students who had been restless immediately changed their attitude.

They had been worried when they heard he was an inspector, but judging by how he spoke, he was incredibly kind.

After all, it wouldn’t be easy to be more terrible than the skeleton principal.

‘Hmph. Foolish brats.’

The skeleton principal standing nearby sneered inwardly.

They might be looking at him with expectant eyes now, but once the semester started, they would long for his rule.

“Uman has dragon blood, so I can carry you all and fly. It would be an honor if you gave me the opportunity to fly with Einroguard’s talents on my back!”

“!!”

The students were flustered by the unexpected words.

“Do you really need to go that far? It seems rather burdensome…”

“More importantly, aren’t dragons extremely rare in the Empire? How on earth did His Majesty take a dragon as his wife?”

“Professor Bendozol would faint if he heard this.”

“Still, how often would we get a chance to ride on a dragon’s back?”

“That’s true. It would be an honor that’s hard to experience even once in a lifetime.”

Jowrin, who was holding Eandurude’s hand with one hand while sucking on a lollipop with the other, bristled at those words.

“Jowrin can carry you plenty too! Lee Han!”

Lee Han, who had been talking with his friends in front, was horrified.

Given the distance from here to Einroguard, if Jowrin flew there herself, she might collapse from exhaustion.

‘Eandurude. Please.’

Lee Han sent a pleading look to his junior before turning around.

A junior who was close to Jowrin should be able to persuade that stubbornness.

Swish!

Eandurude snatched the candy from Jowrin’s hand. Then she spoke in a stern voice.

“If you don’t stay still, no more candy.”

“…L-Lee H…”

“Even if you call senior, no candy.”

“…”

Jowrin held back what she was about to say while sniffling. Eandurude gave her the candy back.

“You won’t tattle, right?”

“Yeah…”

While the master was talking with friends, the baby basilisk who witnessed what just happened wondered if this should be left alone.

‘Isn’t this lese-majeste?!’

Seeing Jowrin happily sucking on her candy again, it seemed to be okay though…

“Oh right. When the new semester starts, it would be good for us all to go see the lake together.”

“Got it.”

“The snow mountain too!”

“…Fine.”

“The desert too…”

“Stop! Pick just one.”

Jowrin was startled by her friend’s strict reaction.

Pick just one.

It was a cold response she couldn’t see from Lee Han.

“Wh-why…”

“Sister!”

While they were chattering, Uman approached. Jowrin was delighted to see her younger brother.

“Uman! What brings you here?”

“Since the new semester is about to start, I have things to tell you, sister.”

Jowrin nodded magnanimously.

Though with the size difference compared to Uman in his large human form, there was no sense of dignity at all…

“When the new semester starts, Einroguard students must be able to focus solely on their studies.”

“Mm. That’s right.”

“So please avoid contact with the students, sister.”

“…Huh?”

Jowrin’s complexion changed.

What?

“Your purpose of touring Einroguard’s sacred grounds is truly extraordinary, but you cannot interfere with the Empire’s pillars, can you?”

“Th-th-th-th-that…”

Jowrin’s eyes began spinning frantically. Eandurude made a ‘so that was your excuse?’ expression beside her.

“E-Eandurude…”

“Making farewells already. How admirable.”

Even though Eandurude was a first-year student with high combat ability, defeating Uman would be impossible.

While Jowrin was flustered, Uman finished the conversation.

“C-can’t I even talk to Lee Han? He’s my contractor??”

“Hmm… contractors would be an exceptional case. Please only converse in ways that don’t interfere with studies.”

“Y-yes! I’ll do that!”

Jowrin’s voice was full of relief as she barely managed to protect her contractor. Seeing this, Eandurude suddenly became worried about her senior.

…Is this really okay?

Uman bowed politely and turned away. Then he walked with large strides and, seeing Gainando, said:

“Mage cards, I see.”

“Yes! Do you happen to know them well?”

“If you’re an Einroguard student, aren’t you past the age for playing mage cards! Please yield to the little children.”

Uman grabbed Gainando’s shoulder, left some encouraging words, and departed.

“…Wh-what was that just now?”

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