Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 599

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Chapter 599

Leaving the disciple who was holding back laughter alone, the Skeleton Principal approached Professor Boladi.

Unlike Burdus, he was a professor who worked quite diligently, so he couldn’t just leave him be.

Don’t be too disheartened, Professor Bagrek.

“…”

However, Professor Boladi remained silent without answering, perhaps more shocked than expected.

The Skeleton Principal was troubled.

Since he wasn’t accustomed to this kind of consolation in the first place, he couldn’t think of what to say.

If it were another professor, he would perk up immediately if offered increased school funding, but Professor Bagrek only had 0… no, 1 disciple, so funding wouldn’t mean much either…

Look here. Though it’s different from what you prepared, Professor, it must have been quite a rewarding exam.

The Skeleton Principal sent his gaze to the Death Knights along with his consolation.

The Death Knights clapped and said.

-That’s right, Professor Bagrek! This is a real exam!

-Where else would you find a truer exam than actual combat? You could think of this as the final exam!

The giant who was pulling out a tree branch to stop his nosebleed also agreed.

-Right. This is a good enough exam.

Lee Han, who had been reading the mood, also subtly chimed in.

“I really learned a lot.”

When everyone present joined forces to console him, Professor Boladi finally had no choice but to give in.

“I guess I’ll have to save what I prepared this time for next year.”

That works, Professor Bagrek. Haha.

“What do you mean it works?”

Lee Han looked at the Skeleton Principal with a serious expression.

Each year has its own exams, so why push this year’s exam to next year?

-Mage. Mage. The nosebleed won’t stop.

“Just a moment. I’ll heal you.”

Since Professor Boladi’s exam had been ruined too, Lee Han checked the giant’s wounds with gratitude.

Professor Alcasis, who was passing by and saw this, nodded and roughly scrawled ‘perfect score’ on a paper.

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“Gasp!”

Gainando, who had awakened, was surprised to find his surroundings were dim.

Looking around, he saw a large bonfire spitting sparks in front, and students from each tower gathered under tents spread nearby, chatting.

Among them, Angrago from the Alpha family was cutting a piece of sticky chocolate eclair and putting it in his mouth. Gainando immediately recognized which product it was just by looking at the shape of the eclair’s end.

It was 【Meikin Family’s Magical Chocolate Eclair】, one of Gainando’s favorite cake products.

“Eat… eating it alone!”

“Ahhh!”

Angrago was startled by Gainando suddenly shouting from the sleeping bag behind him.

He thought a ghost had appeared.

“If you’re awake, speak quietly instead of shouting like that. Do you know how much trouble we went through to save you?”

“Save? …Ah!”

Only then did Gainando remember that he had been kidnapped by the bloodsucker monster.

The White Tiger Tower students became spirited and shouted.

“That’s right. We even gave up dancing and fought so hard to save you.”

“…That doesn’t make sense? You guys tried to save me? Not Lee Han?”

Despite being confused and hungry, Gainando made a sharp observation.

The White Tiger Tower students were startled by his words.

How did this guy figure it out?

“I got it right, didn’t I? Huh?”

“…Anyway, we fought together too. You prince bastard.”

“Right. You should be grateful… Hey! Why are you eating that!”

When Gainando sneakily approached and started devouring the food on the table, the White Tiger Tower students were horrified.

“Munch. Let’s eat together. Munch munch.”

“Go back to your tower and eat!”

“What are you doing?”

Lee Han, who had been cooking various cheeses in oil on a pan and serving them on plates, looked puzzled at Gainando and the White Tiger Tower friends.

“Wardanaz! The prince has gone crazy! He’s eating our food!”

“Just let him eat with you. The final exams are over anyway.”

“How can you say that…”

The White Tiger Tower students who were about to protest looked at where Lee Han had been standing just moments ago.

There was Wardanaz, frantically preparing, frying, and trimming ingredients in front of the oven with the Phoenix Tower priests.

Conscience aside, they felt a sense of crisis that they might get beaten or kicked out if they argued further here.

“…Well… fine…”

‘Huh. Have these guys matured?’

Lee Han was slightly surprised by the White Tiger Tower students’ reaction.

Instead of grumbling about the taste, they were showing such a reaction?

Actually, since the semester was ending, he was cooking extensively to finish off the older ingredients first.

Various cheeses were fried, old bread and ham were buttered and grilled, then topped with a mixture of cheese and eggs to make canapés…

Old rice was made into risotto with plenty of fish brought from the stream and spices, and so on.

Actually, he thought some would complain since older ingredients, while not spoiled, inevitably had inferior taste, but no one was complaining and everyone was eating deliciously.

‘Their tongues must have been optimized after staying at Einroguard for nearly a year.’

Lee Han looked at the White Tiger Tower friends with pity.

The White Tiger Tower friends, unaware of the truth, were devouring the food, saying it was so delicious.

“Lee Han. Lee Han.”

“?”

Gainando, who had finished a bowl of fish soup, two plates of Empire central-style pork cutlet, five skewers of grilled chicken and sparrow, and three of Professor Thunderstep’s special cabin sausages, called Lee Han while breathing heavily.

Only now had he regained enough composure to ask.

“What happened?”

“What happened? Ah. Are you talking about Professor Bagrek just skipping the final exam?”

Lee Han started with the most impressive event of the day.

Of course, Gainando wasn’t particularly interested in such things.

“That’s just something that happens all the time!”

“No. This is amazing…”

“That monster, you know. The monster!”

“Ah. Right. That happened too.”

“…”

Gainando was dumbfounded, but his friend explained without changing expression.

So the bloodsucker monster took Gainando and tried to disappear, but thanks to the brave giants and Death Knights coming to fight together…

“…Huh!? My coat, where’s my coat!?”

“Sorry. The bloodsucker monster destroyed it.”

Actually the giants had destroyed it, but Lee Han blamed the defeated bloodsucker monster.

Since it was a bad guy anyway, taking a few more crimes wouldn’t change anything.

“No… no way! That cursed monster! How?! How could it destroy my coat! It was a real masterpiece!”

“Come on. It wasn’t that great.”

“Just moderately well-made?”

“Even being generous, it was mediocre.”

The other friends, having forgotten their enchanted memories, answered shamelessly.

Not only the Black Tortoise Tower and White Tiger Tower students, but even Blue Dragon Tower students like Asan did the same.

“I don’t know why we were so envious of it.”

“Right, right.”

“You… you bastards… you were so envious and now that it’s gone…!”

Gainando trembled with indignation.

The guys who couldn’t take their eyes off the coat when he had it were now acting so coldly just because the coat had disappeared.

“You… you answer me! You were also very interested in the coat!”

Gainando called out to Adenart. Adenart, who was dining with her followers, slightly raised her eyebrows at Gainando’s call.

“I’m not sure what you mean.”

“…Hey! Damn it! You definitely wanted it!”

“That coat was certainly interesting.”

“Right? Right?!”

When someone from behind took his side, Gainando excitedly turned around.

A handsome man he’d never seen before was sitting in a chair.

He was a beautiful man who looked like he belonged in ancient books or sculptures from old kingdoms.

“Huh. Is there such a handsome person in White Tiger Tower?”

“…What do you mean by that, you prince bastard?”

The White Tiger Tower students bristled.

Of course, compared to Blue Dragon Tower, they lacked aristocratic refinement, but the White Tiger Tower students didn’t consider that a weakness.

They thought it was a difference that emerged because they chose knightly martial spirit and bold vigor.

“It’s not your fault. It wouldn’t be easy for young people these days to keep up with the beauty of my era.”

Along with his words, the handsome man naturally stole and ate a piece of food from Gainando’s plate. Gainando was greatly shocked by the fact that he couldn’t react.

“What are you doing right now…!!”

“Principal, what are you doing?”

“…Would you like more?”

Gainando froze and offered his plate.

The Skeleton Principal in human form took the plate and emptied the food on it.

“I wanted to see that coat once, but it’s unfortunate. The materials and the curse were probably quite decent.”

“How could magic be completed when it was mixed so carelessly?”

“Very occasionally. Sometimes magic is born from coincidence.”

While the Skeleton Principal and Lee Han were conversing, the White Tiger Tower students all got up and fled to other tower tables.

Even students from other towers, who would normally curse and chase them away, looked terrified and allowed them to sit down.

“P-Principal. Did you come to take away someone who failed?”

Gainando asked while hiding behind Lee Han.

At the end of every semester’s exams, the Skeleton Principal took small pleasure in locking up those who failed in the punishment room.

“No. No one failed this time. More importantly, why are you spouting nonsense about sand octopi living in the undead realm?”

“I… I thought they might be discovered someday…”

The Skeleton Principal began explaining ‘What is inductive reasoning?’ with a contemptuous look.

Gainando cursed himself for answering honestly for no reason.

After making Gainando collapse with just conversation, the Skeleton Principal looked at Lee Han and asked.

“What are your plans for this winter break?”

“I’m trying to collect a hundred gold coins.”

“…Not that kind of plan…”

The Skeleton Principal had to suppress a sigh.

“I mean travel. Travel. Usually you wouldn’t stay in Granden City during winter break.”

“Ah. Yes. I plan to return to the Wardanaz Family first to see the Family Head. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to see him, but anyway…”

“Actually, there’s something you need to do before that.”

The Skeleton Principal spoke seriously.

At those words, Gainando beside him was startled.

How did the Principal read Gainando’s inner thoughts?

“You’re talking about inviting Lee Han to our family’s manor now, right?”

“…”

When the Skeleton Principal waved his hand, Gainando was immediately teleported to the table on the opposite side.

“His Imperial Majesty wants to meet you in person.”

“…!”

Lee Han was greatly shocked by those words.

So shocking that no other questions came to mind.

“Wait. Is there some reason Gainando shouldn’t know about having a private audience with His Imperial Majesty?”

“It’s fine if he knows. I just chased him away because he was being noisy.”

“…Ah, yes.”

“I already sent word to the Family Head.”

“Did you get a reply?”

“No.”

“I thought so. He’s so busy…”

“He would be. Anyway, I’m sorry, but your winter break plans have changed a bit.”

The Skeleton Principal began drawing a simple schedule on the tablecloth.

First meet His Imperial Majesty, then meet the people who needed to be met in the capital, then secure students among the new first-year enrollees whose admission procedures were complicated, and finally drop Lee Han off at the Wardanaz Family manor.

After that, Lee Han could enjoy a happy winter break rest.

Or do winter break labor…

“Uh. Principal. Meeting His Imperial Majesty is one thing, but there seem to be a lot of strange things after that.”

‘Sharp little bastard.’

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