Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1107

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Chapter 1107

“Why is that?”

-M-Master. There aren’t many students who can start fires, are there? Besides, Lord Wardanaz doesn’t seem to have that much dissatisfaction with the current situation.

“You are wrong! Lee Han is very angry!”

Jowrin firmly denied the knight’s words.

Right now Uman was preventing the contractor and dragon from meeting, so there was no way he wouldn’t be angry.

“Regardless of anger, didn’t that Wardanaz fellow say he would come directly? Then he would have started fires too.”

The Skeleton Principal answered coldly.

Probabilistically speaking, this was a very likely guess.

He probably would have learned 【Escape to the Shadow Fortress】 by now.

However, considering the weakened magic from modifying the overly difficult original text, it wouldn’t be easy to break through the dragon race’s foresight that Uman had deployed.

Then inevitably that disciple would confuse the dragon race to weaken their foresight abilities.

-…I-Indeed!

The Death Knight found himself convinced without realizing it.

At first he thought it was forced, but when he actually heard it, it felt very plausible.

As expected, the one who knows a disciple best is the master?

-I’m sorry, Master! This foolish knight dared to…!

“Haha. It’s fine. Not everyone can be as wise as this Archmage.”

The Skeleton Principal, pleased by the flattery, forgave generously.

However, Jowrin became very dejected.

“Because of Jowrin, Lee Han is burning down the territory…”

“Don’t worry about it too much. Originally, to become a great mage, you need to know how to start some fires.”

Normally Jowrin would have fallen for the Skeleton Principal’s nonsense, but this time it didn’t work. She just kept sighing deeply and being gloomy.

‘You’ve really grown a lot.’

The Skeleton Principal admired inwardly and subtly suggested.

“Why don’t you ask that Wardanaz fellow once. He won’t care about it at all.”

“Jowrin doesn’t think she can become a dragon like Azirmo…”

“Why would you need to become such a dragon…”

“Huh?”

“It’s nothing. Come on, ask him.”

Jowrin gloomily grabbed the quill pen.

And after a moment.

“…Huh? Lee Han says he didn’t do it?”

“Tell him not to lie. This cunning fellow.”

The Skeleton Principal snorted.

Certainly this disciple fellow had the qualifications to become a great mage.

To know how to lie even in this situation!

* * *

“…”

Lee Han, who had arrived at the 5th floor of the main building after breaking through surveillance, glared at the Skeleton Principal and knights.

The knights had nothing to say even if they had ten mouths.

‘Damn it. It definitely seemed convincing when I heard it.’

“Logically speaking, if fires were started, wouldn’t the upperclassmen have started them rather than me?”

“You could have started them too…”

The Skeleton Principal turned his gaze away and grumbled.

Who would have thought his prediction would be so off.

“You have the means to escape Uman’s surveillance, and it would be hard for Uman to catch you later even if he examined you with the scales. So I naturally thought you would start fires.”

“I’m just afraid of the Principal’s way of thinking. …Wait, hold on. What do you mean it would be hard to catch me even if Prince Uman examined me with the scales?”

At Lee Han’s question, the Skeleton Principal looked at him as if he were looking at the stupidest person in the room.

“Don’t you know what kind of artifact the Soul Scales are?”

“I heard it’s an artifact that binds souls then puts them on scales to make them confess their crimes.”

“…Have you been eating only tasteless food lately so your intelligence dropped?”

The Skeleton Principal looked at Lee Han incredulously and flipped his eyelids. Lee Han swatted his hand away in displeasure.

-Um, Lord Wardanaz. Just like how the freshman protection magic cast on students above 2nd year doesn’t work, the magic that binds and extracts souls probably won’t work either.

“Ah.”

Lee Han finally understood.

“How am I supposed to understand when you explain it like that?”

“How do you get more shameless as time goes on? But if you didn’t start the fires… What’s this, 【Escape to the Shadow Fortress】 is strange? What did you learn?”

“Huh? Didn’t you send me knowing I had the sheet music?”

Lee Han looked puzzled and briefly explained what had happened.

Professor Paselette had run away, but somehow with a senior’s help, he completed it with existing music magic.

The Skeleton Principal nodded slightly while listening and then said.

“I see. Everything went according to my expectations.”

“…”

I don’t think so…

While Lee Han sent suspicious looks, the Skeleton Principal called the Death Knights.

“Track Professor Paselette. Even if capturing him is difficult, weaken his foresight abilities as much as possible.”

-Yes. Understood.

“Anyway, it’s great that you learned 【Escape to the Shadow Fortress】! You’ll be able to visit here often from now on.”

This would conflict with Uman’s claimed ‘securing healthy daily time for student Wardanaz,’ but this much should be fine.

Sure enough, Jowrin’s face brightened considerably. There was the blazing firelight from outside contributing to it, but even accounting for that, her face had definitely brightened.

“Wow!!!!! Then…!”

Jowrin, extremely excited, counted on her fingers.

“We need to play chess, and finish the ball game we were playing last time… um… um… Oh right! How about visiting for about 10 days next week?”

The power to change the Empire’s weekly system was amazing, but Lee Han couldn’t bring himself to say he understood.

“Um. But Your Majesty.”

“Yeah?”

“I have to go outside soon for a commission.”

“…”

Jowrin shut her mouth tight. At her silent appearance, Lee Han and the Skeleton Principal looked at her carefully.

‘Will she be okay?’

‘She’ll be fine. His Majesty has grown a lot recently.’

If it were the old Jowrin, she would have returned to her original dragon form and cried so hard the village would flood, but the current Jowrin was not the old Jowrin.

Wasn’t she growing remarkably every time the Skeleton Principal saw her, enough to surprise even himself?

…Waaaaaaah!

“Damn it.”

The Skeleton Principal who stood up moved quickly to avoid the tears sweeping around. Lee Han, who was a step too late, had to endure the baptism of tears.

“…”

“Predictions can be wrong sometimes. You have to know how to humbly accept that.”

‘I should never trust him again.’

After glaring once at the Skeleton Principal who had dodged by himself, Lee Han went back to comforting Jowrin.

Jowrin, who had returned to dragon form, wailed pitifully.

Waaah…

“Your Majesty. Your Majesty.”

Jowrin, who had been crying, stopped crying and looked at her contractor.

“Your Majesty has grown a lot recently. You shouldn’t cry over something like this.”

Jowrin hasn’t grown at all!

-Wow…

The baby basilisk in his sleeve covered its own face with its tail.

It felt embarrassed just listening.

‘I wasn’t that bad!’

“It seems that way.”

“Be quiet.”

Lee Han snapped at the Skeleton Principal who was making sarcastic remarks beside him, then resumed his persuasion.

“You can meet after I finish the commission and return.”

Really… is that so? How often do you go on commissions? Once this semester?

Jowrin asked, seeming slightly interested. Lee Han felt his breath catching.

“…A little more than that.”

Twice?

“A little more…”

Three times?

“Just a little more than that…”

…

The Gold Dragon blinked her large eyes and glared at him. Tears welled up as if she was about to cry again at any moment.

Unable to watch any longer, the Skeleton Principal spoke up.

“Your Majesty. If you’re going to be like this, why don’t you just follow along on the commissions?”

“…No. Principal, are you going out?!”

Lee Han was shocked.

What cunning scheme was this evil archmage plotting now?

The Skeleton Principal grinned and said.

“Don’t tell me you dislike traveling with Your Majesty?”

“…”

Lee Han resolved that once this matter was over, he would seriously consider ways to keep Uman in office for another term.

What kind of…

“Your Majesty. When I go on commissions, I don’t go alone. Basically, Professor Bagrek and Professor Garcia come with me. Sometimes I go with other students too.”

Then Jowrin can come along too!

“…Yes… well… if you insist.”

Lee Han hesitated but eventually gave up.

Seeing Jowrin act like this, he got the strong feeling that she would never give up.

One of the Death Knights who had been listening to the conversation carefully asked.

-But Your Majesty. Will the Inspector be alright with this? He might be disappointed if he finds out you went off on your own…

“!”

Lee Han’s face lit up at those words.

Who would have thought there’d be a plot twist here?

Jowrin said she had actually thought about Uman too.

The Gold Dragon spoke seriously, mumbling with a thoughtful expression.

There would naturally be consequences for following Lee Han.

“Then what will you do?”

Hmm! Jowrin decided she would worry about it later!

“…”

Lee Han was shocked by this reckless idea of following along first and dealing with the consequences later – something only an Einroguard student would think of.

What???

“Excellent, Your Majesty. Honestly, if Your Majesty insists on going, what can Uman possibly do about it?”

“Please, could you just be quiet??”

Lee Han really wanted to hit his master.

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“So that’s how you ended up coming along with us?”

“Yes… I’m truly sorry.”

Inside the carriage, Lee Han kept bowing his head in apology to Professor Garcia.

Even with ten mouths, he had nothing to say in his defense.

“Oh, no. It’s not Student Lee Han’s fault. But didn’t Student Lee Han set something on fire?”

“…”

“…Just kidding! It was just a joke!”

Seeing her disciple’s sad expression, Professor Garcia hastily changed the subject.

I naturally expected to be included!

Even while the two were talking, Jowrin was excitedly pressing her nose close to the carriage window, watching the scenery outside.

Professor Garcia glanced at the Imperial Princess once, then lowered her voice to whisper.

“So she’ll be coming along on the next commission too?”

“Well… I guess we’ll have to trust Prince Uman.”

At that answer, Professor Garcia felt an inexplicable sense of foreboding.

A foreboding that she would keep following along in the future!

“…Should we talk about the commission? I know Student Lee Han has taken on many commissions, so I’m curious why you chose this particular one. It’s not even a commission you can do with your friends, right?”

Professor Garcia checked the client.

Unusually, it was a commission from the Daylily Magic Tower.

“It’s the magic tower that the Principal visited during last vacation to extort donations from. I felt a bit sorry about that…”

‘Principal…!!!!’

At her disciple’s answer, Professor Garcia screamed internally.

She had never felt more ashamed of being an Einroguard professor than today.

Moreover, hadn’t Professor Garcia herself been similarly exploited by the Skeleton Principal before?

The Skeleton Principal’s deceptive trick of dangling an outstanding talent in front of a magic tower and coaxing them with ‘This kid might go to your magic tower after graduation?’ was wickedly cunning.

“Student Lee Han is… truly a disciple too good for the Principal.”

“No. You’re actually a master too good for me, Professor.”

“Student Lee Han!”

Professor Garcia’s eyes suddenly welled up and she almost cried.

Tap tap-

When she turned her head, Professor Boladi was patting her shoulder consolingly. Professor Garcia was even more deeply moved.

“Professor Bagrek…! You’re also moved…”

“Time’s up. Professor Garcia. Let’s switch.”

“…”

Professor Garcia felt her tears completely disappear.

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