Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 612

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Chapter 612

Lee Han didn’t care about the Skeleton Principal’s scolding.

This was a more important issue than he thought.

Of course, Einroguard was a good place in terms of opportunities, but not everyone coveted the best opportunities.

“…Einroguard is a place full of violence, struggle, blood, and pain like this. You need to know that before choosing.”

‘That’s quite an exaggeration.’

The Skeleton Principal was dumbfounded by Lee Han’s exaggeration.

Anyone listening would think Einroguard was a lawless zone without even imperial law.

“Fight and eat! Fight and eat!”

Eandurude’s eyes sparkled as she pounded the table with both hands.

Lee Han’s explanation had actually excited Eandurude.

A place full of strong enemies, struggle, and meals!

“Well, if you’ve decided… No, but how about reconsidering? Think about it one more time.”

“You’re teaching your junior some really good things.”

The Skeleton Principal sneered from afar.

As a senior, he should confidently and boldly say ‘If you don’t enter Einroguard, you’re a dropout and a loser!’ instead of acting so uncertainly.

“But Einroguard is quite harsh, isn’t it?”

“Only those raised in greenhouses would find it harsh. For someone like that, it probably won’t be too harsh.”

Lee Han had to acknowledge the Skeleton Principal’s words.

Compared to the life this junior had experienced, Einroguard might not be that difficult.

“You’re right.”

“Now you seem to understand. Then feed her and give her some education. She should at least be able to read and write her own name.”

“…Uh, am I the one doing it?”

“Originally the Death Knights did it. If you don’t want to, I can leave it to the Death Knights.”

Lee Han looked at his junior who was staring at the empty plate with an innocent expression.

She clearly looked like a junior who had learned nothing about the Empire and had only fought.

Would it be right to entrust such a junior to knights who had been dead for hundreds of years and couldn’t keep up with changing times?

“I’ll just do it myself.”

“Tsk tsk. Wasting time because of sympathy.”

‘You’re the one who told me to…’

Lee Han was dumbfounded, but the Skeleton Principal was preparing to go out and walking away.

“Where are you going today?”

“Going to persuade those who have new students. I won’t need your help today, so play with your junior.”

“Ah. Are there only places that are easy to persuade?”

“No. There are only those who don’t need persuasion.”

The Skeleton Principal was about to put on a white coat but hesitated for a moment and put it down.

“Hmm… It would be troublesome if blood splattered.”

Seeing the Skeleton Principal putting on a black coat, Lee Han averted his gaze and looked at his junior.

“Now. Let’s study spelling first.”

* * *

His junior was quite smart.

Not long after studying, she completely learned the Empire’s letters and became able to write her own name.

“Now. Try writing this. Einroguard.”

“Einroguard.”

“Osyu Gonadaltes.”

“Osyu Gonadaltes.”

“Madman.”

“Madman.”

“No. Forget that last one. It came out habitually. Anyway, you did really well. I’ll prepare a meal for you.”

Lee Han headed to the villa’s kitchen.

Except for having too many sardines, the kitchen food storage was quite abundant.

Potatoes, canned sardines, carrots, dried sardines, cabbage, frozen sardines, chicken, pickled sardines…

‘I should put the sardines aside separately.’

It was lacking and modest for preparing a noble-style banquet, but in the eyes of an experienced Einroguard student, this was enough for a feast.

Lee Han prepared a meal thinking of his junior who probably hadn’t eaten warm food for quite a long time.

Growl-

“Wait just a moment.”

“I understand.”

First, for his hungry junior, he put chunks of meat on the fire, stir-fried them with vegetables, then simply seasoned with pepper and salt before serving.

However, his junior didn’t eat right away and waited.

“You can eat?”

“Didn’t win?”

“…From now on, you can eat even without winning. And you just memorized the spelling well. That’s winning.”

“!”

Thinking Lee Han’s words made quite a bit of sense, his junior began attacking the food.

Seeing the plate emptied in an instant, Lee Han immediately brought out more dishes.

Baked dishes with cheese stuffed between potatoes and golden-brown baked in the oven, hot potato soup with butter-fried onions ground and added, sardine dishes stir-fried in oil with cabbage and generously sprinkled with spices…

‘Oops. I ended up using sardines.’

He didn’t intend to make sardine dishes, but there were so many that he got caught up in it.

However, his junior ate it deliciously. Lee Han looked at his junior with a pleased expression.

“Oh. Were you having a meal?”

Alsicle walked out yawning.

Having suffered for a while following the Skeleton Principal and Lee Han around, Alsicle had recently been immersed in magical research again.

And strangely, magical research tended to work better at night.

Alsicle, who had stayed up all night and woken up during the day, spoke with delight at the unusual dining table.

“Wow, did you prepare this yourself? Can I have a little too?”

“Of course.”

Alsicle excitedly tried to take some of the sardine dish…

Smack!

Growl!

Eandurude swatted away Alsicle’s wing and growled.

“Why, why?”

“You can’t do that to Alsicle! Apologize.”

“??”

At Lee Han’s words, his junior tilted her head as if she didn’t understand.

Within Eandurude, a hierarchy of ‘Lee Han > herself > penguin beastman’ had already been established.

“Sorry…”

“No. It’s okay. She must like sardines. Since I’ve eaten a lot of sardines, I’ll have this meat dish…”

Smack!

Growl!

Seeing the gorgon mixed-blood growling once again, Alsicle was dumbfounded.

He had heard from the Skeleton Principal that ‘he picked up a kid who grew up quite roughly,’ but he didn’t know it would be to this extent.

“…I’ll just prepare and eat separately.”

Fighting over food with a young mage who hadn’t learned properly yet didn’t suit the dignity of the Penguerin family either.

Alsicle opened a can of sardines and took it in his beak.

Lee Han found himself staring as if enchanted without realizing it.

It wasn’t for nothing that other nobles gave donations just to watch. There was strong magic in the sight of Alsicle swallowing fish.

Eandurude was puzzled by Lee Han staring intently at Alsicle’s sardine consumption.

Then she also opened a can of sardines and tried to swallow it whole.

“…Wait! You don’t need to do that!”

“??”

“You can just eat normally.”

‘So I wasn’t eating normally?’

Alsicle grumbled inwardly.

As a pure-blooded penguin beastman, popularity was like fate, but the delighted reactions whenever he swallowed fish sometimes got annoying.

“Have you eaten?”

“I was about to eat now.”

Lee Han was planning to just make a sandwich or something.

Then his junior glanced around and pushed her plate toward him.

“No… you eat it. I’m fine.”

“The winner eats? Why won’t you eat?”

“A true winner doesn’t steal others’ meals and sometimes takes care of them instead. Here. Finish eating and let’s study next.”

Eandurude didn’t understand everything but nodded and inhaled the remaining meal.

Alsicle watched this and said.

“I think you need to teach dining etiquette too.”

Hmph!

The junior glared at Alsicle again and growled. Alsicle explained in confusion.

“No, dining etiquette is necessary. You brat.”

“Junior. You do need to learn dining etiquette.”

“I understand.”

“…”

Alsicle was shocked at that gorgon half-blood kid’s reaction.

He realized how that beast-like brat had established hierarchy.

‘That brat?!’

* * *

Lee Han began crash education with Alsicle’s help.

“First, basic Empire moral common sense seems necessary. Like you can’t just take what you need without permission.”

“But at Einroguard, you take what you need by force, right?”

“Where did you hear such rumors, Alsicle?”

“Gonadaltes told me.”

“…Other than that, simple customs of each region in the Empire, basic arithmetic.”

“Etiquette. Make sure to teach etiquette.”

“Understood.”

“Etiquette to follow at noble gatherings too.”

“That much?”

“Learning everything will be useful.”

Alsicle strongly advocated for advanced etiquette learning seeing the detestable gorgon half-blood kid.

In Alsicle’s view, that brat was severely lacking in basic Empire morals.

She needed to learn advanced morals to deeply feel how great and dignified the Empire’s nobles were, and realize how rude her actions had been.

“Hmm. Understood.”

Lee Han was puzzled but agreed for now.

Since Lee Han himself had learned it from the Wardanaz Family, teaching it wouldn’t be too difficult.

“Oh. I think we need to teach strength control too.”

Eandurude’s most powerful weapons were her magic eyes with petrification curse and hair that transformed into snakes.

A seasoned, experienced warrior could control this themselves, but he couldn’t expect that from his junior.

“No need to worry about that. The Principal will solve it with artifacts.”

Alsicle said, flapping his wings.

The Skeleton Principal had dealt with students from tricky backgrounds more than once or twice.

That level of racial ability was beyond easy – he could solve it while yawning.

“Huh, but I have lots of mana and he didn’t give me anything.”

“Wow. This can has two whole sardines in it?!”

“…”

Lee Han grumbled that he shouldn’t have said anything and organized what to teach his junior.

‘Make her read a few more books before entering, hmm. Just in case, should I have her learn some useful alchemy potion recipes too. Edible plants and herbs would be quite useful. This kid probably has no hunting experience, should I teach hunting too…’

“Stay silent and still. Stay silent and still. Nod and smile. Nod and smile.”

Eandurude made ‘mm mm’ sounds while memorizing etiquette.

It seemed like doing this would be enough at the place she was going.

Don’t attack first, but counterattack when attacked, behave politely normally, show respectful reverence when meeting the leader, don’t just eat gifts received at school…

Lee Han was pleased seeing what his junior had noted down.

“Show respectful reverence when meeting the Principal. Very smart?”

“What’s a Principal?”

“…Wait. Then who is this leader…”

Slam!

The door opened and the Skeleton Principal returned looking tired.

“Troublesome bastards.”

“Oh. Gonadaltes. You have blood on you.”

“Not my blood.”

“…”

Alsicle regretted pointing it out.

“But you killed them all!”

“What?”

“Ah. It’s all finished. I meant I finished persuading them.”

“…”

“…”

Then a paper bird flew in through the window. The Skeleton Principal frowned deeply after receiving the letter.

“What kind of letter is it?”

“A brat who said he’d enroll is suddenly being fickle. I thought it was all finished but this is annoying…”

Alsicle asked curiously.

“That’s unusual. There aren’t many people who say they’ll enroll then change their minds. Who is it?”

“Your family.”

“…!”

Alsicle recalled relatives from his family who were old enough to enter Einroguard.

“Ah. I think I know who it is. Probably thinks they can self-study alone with their talent without entering Einroguard…”

“Why are all your family brats so inflated with confidence?”

“It’s not just our family…”

“Enough. There’s a special remedy for such brats.”

“You’re going to beat them?”

“No. Wardanaz. Get your coat. Let’s go.”

“…”

Alsicle had to acknowledge the Skeleton Principal’s special remedy.

The effect would surely be devastatingly good!

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