Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 728

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Chapter 728

Professor Bendozol’s outcry naturally fell on deaf ears.

To begin with, the relationship between the Quidditch Club members and Professor Bendozol wasn’t particularly close. If one had to describe it, it was closer to a hostile symbiotic relationship.

The Quidditch Club needed to obtain, tame, and care for various rare animals from the Empire.

As such, the help of Professor Bendozol, Einroguard’s top expert, was certainly necessary, but…

…Professor Bendozol was also someone who, while helping with animals, constantly tried to steal the Quidditch Club’s animals.

When such a person complained about a promising junior member being harmed, it could only sound like nonsense.

Hormashi suddenly became curious and asked.

“But Professor, why don’t you attack directly?”

Of course, even though Einroguard lived without Imperial law, it was rare for professors to attack students arbitrarily.

But wasn’t Professor Bendozol especially crazy among those professors?

“For two reasons. First, if I attack directly, I might earn the unicorn’s hatred.”

‘I think you already have?’

Hormashi thought so, but didn’t want to provoke the crazy professor, so he kept it to himself.

“Yes… I see. What’s the other reason?”

“I promised the Principal I wouldn’t attack him over the unicorn matter. Damn it!”

“?”

Hormashi, who had been listening without much thought, perked up his long ears in confusion.

‘What kind of bullshit is that?’

The Skeleton Principal might incite someone to attack others, but he was absolutely not someone who would tell anyone not to attack someone.

Perhaps there was some special protection policy for students taking multiple schools that Hormashi didn’t know about?

“How did you end up making such a promise…”

-It’s not like I did anything particularly great. I just happened to meet during winter break.

The Dark Elf senior who was about to ask the professor again paused.

The junior had started explaining how he became friends with the unicorn.

It was a story several times more interesting than Professor Bendozol’s tale.

“So that’s how it was.”

“Wait. I’ll listen to that later.”

“…”

Hormashi cut off Professor Bendozol’s words and listened intently.

“You met during winter break? How exactly?”

“During winter break, I went looking for a unicorn to help Professor Lightningstep with his work.”

“Oh my. Why on earth?”

The club seniors murmured among themselves.

There were various bad choices one could make during vacation, but among them, helping a professor with their work was the worst choice.

“…Couldn’t I help?”

“Doesn’t seem like it. Anyway, continue. Did you meet the unicorn while looking for it? How did you become friends?”

Lee Han briefly explained what had happened in the mountain range during winter break.

He had gone in with hunters to protect a unicorn and met Professor Bendozol…

“Oh no!”

“Of all things!”

The seniors let out sighs of despair.

Even with bad luck, how could one be so unlucky?

Helping a professor during vacation was unfortunate enough, but to meet another professor while helping with that work.

“…In that situation, the Principal arrived and everything was resolved well.”

“I see… Huh?”

The Quidditch Club members murmured.

The unicorn in the mountain range and the evil monsters targeting the unicorn, Dochul and Bendozol. And the mages and hunters who arrived to save that unicorn.

It was a very exciting story, but suddenly the Principal appeared and it reached a conclusion.

“Did Professor Lightningstep call him?”

“No way. Professor Lightningstep has common sense, so he wouldn’t call the Principal.”

“…I called him.”

“You called him?”

“Yes.”

Seeing the seniors’ ominous atmosphere, Lee Han hastily made excuses.

“Professor Lightningstep and Professor Bendozol were fighting, so I had no choice. Dochul was about to attack…”

“Hmm! Your words make sense too. Certainly that situation couldn’t be helped.”

“Thank you for understanding.”

The seniors smiled and nodded.

Then they all fled in unison.

“…”

* * *

“It couldn’t be helped.”

The only senior who didn’t run away, Hormashi, spoke to him.

Lee Han replied with a slightly sullen attitude.

“What couldn’t be helped?”

“Regardless of the reason, the very fact that you called the Principal sounds dangerous.”

The Dark Elf senior spoke casually, but there was nothing wrong with the content.

It didn’t matter how dangerous the situation was.

What mattered was that the junior was close enough to the Skeleton Principal to call him.

“…I just happened to receive a summoning artifact by chance.”

“I see. I believe you!”

Saying that, Hormashi took a step back.

If this junior had received a summoning artifact from the Skeleton Principal, it wouldn’t be strange if he suddenly transformed into a monster from another dimension.

“Anyway, don’t worry about the other members’ reactions. They fear you now, but…”

“The misunderstanding will clear up over time, right?”

“Yeah. I was going to say they’ll ignore it and just play Quidditch anyway. What misunderstanding is there to clear up? It’s all true.”

“…”

Whether Lee Han glared at him or not, Hormashi said what he wanted to say.

“More importantly, junior. Let’s talk about Quidditch! Actually, this Hormashi has been waiting for a junior like you. I don’t care at all even if you’re the Principal’s top student.”

“Who said that again? Which bastard was it?”

“Again?”

‘Oops.’

From the senior’s expression, Lee Han realized he had overreacted.

Hormashi asked with a wary look.

“Do you often hear that you’re the Principal’s top student?”

“No? This is the first time I’m hearing it.”

“…Right. Let’s get back to what we were talking about.”

Though he said that, Hormashi took two more steps back.

“Right now, Einroguard’s Quidditch Club lacks outstanding attackers. Senior Kimbelden graduated, and Senior Bodrulgo failed to graduate and went crazy.”

“Excuse me?”

Lee Han wanted to ask more about Senior Bodrulgo, but Hormashi didn’t seem very interested in people who had left the club.

“But you have the talent of an outstanding attacker. You might be able to fill that gap.”

“I appreciate the compliment, but I haven’t played much Quidditch.”

This was true.

Unlike his friends who enjoyed mounted Quidditch, bare-handed Quidditch, table Quidditch, assignment Quidditch (Quidditch using crumpled assignments as balls), and Wardanaz Quidditch (Quidditch where White Tiger Tower students playing the ball role dodge the angry Wardanaz’s staff) whenever they were bored, Lee Han himself hadn’t played much Quidditch.

“It doesn’t matter. Talent is separate from experience.”

Lee Han, who had been listening to the story, suddenly became curious.

What was this senior seeing in him to evaluate him so highly?

“Do I really have that much talent for polo? Why?”

“You’re close with a unicorn. That’s enough.”

“…No. That’s just talent for handling animals.”

“Originally, talent for handling animals is 90% of polo. Horsemanship is 50%.”

‘Maybe because he’s a White Tiger Tower senior, he’s weak with numbers.’

Hormashi looked at the unicorn playing next to Lee Han and spoke in a very satisfied voice.

“To think it likes you that much. You and the unicorn will make a good pair.”

“But senior. I have no intention of playing polo riding a unicorn.”

“!?!?”

-!?!?

Not only Hormashi but even the unicorn looked at Lee Han with shocked eyes.

“Why?!”

-■!

“Well… there’s already someone I promised to ride out with. If I ride the unicorn out, it’ll get sulky.”

“You need to persuade it properly! What are you talking about?!”

The dark elf senior was so shocked that he shouted in a shrill voice.

Having a unicorn but not riding it out was blasphemy against polo, unicorns, and the Empire.

“Of course, not riding a horse you’re close with might feel like betrayal. But when there’s a more suitable one, forcing consideration is a more cruel act.”

“It’s, it’s not a horse.”

“Not a horse?”

Hormashi, who naturally assumed a 2nd year student’s close mount would be a horse, tilted his head.

“If not, then what? A mountain goat? A wild boar? An ostrich?”

“Senior. Please promise you won’t think it’s strange if I tell you.”

“Are you underestimating your senior? I won’t be surprised no matter what you’ve tamed.”

Ever since the junior had summoned the Skeleton Principal, Hormashi couldn’t be surprised by his junior.

Even if he had tamed a griffin…

‘Hmm. That would be a bit surprising though.’

“Understood. Actually, it’s a griffin.”

“…What the hell kind of guy are you??”

* * *

After comforting his wounded junior (during which the junior was comforting the wounded unicorn), Hormashi spoke in a serious voice.

“Let’s go see your griffin.”

The unicorn tried to attack Hormashi with an angry cry.

Then Hormashi quickly created distance and kept the unicorn at bay.

“Don’t come near me, you horned horse. As long as my junior has a griffin, I have no business with you!”

-■!

“Aren’t you being too harsh with your words?”

“It’s not like I’m going to ride it.”

Hormashi spoke with an indifferent attitude.

What a rider cherishes is the animal they ride, not an animal they’re not even close with.

“No. Before going to see the griffin, it would be better to see my mount first. Follow me.”

Hormashi was very excited by the fact that a griffin rider junior had joined.

‘If we charge together shoulder to shoulder…!’

For that, they needed to know something about each other’s mounts. Hormashi planned to explain his mount to his junior.

“Hormashi! Tell your junior to get the support funds!”

“Ah. That’s right.”

At Senior Perse’s shout from afar, Lee Han asked curiously.

“What are support funds?”

“The polo club periodically gives gold coins from the club treasury to members who raise animals. To help and encourage raising them.”

The polo club’s prize money was partly given to active members, and the rest was stored in the treasury to be used as support funds for members.

The rarer and more powerful animals they raised, the more support they received as it helped the club.

“One griffin, one unicorn. Wow.”

Hormashi whistled as he calculated. This might set a new club record.

“Do you have any more? Horses get a little too, so tell me if you have any.”

“I am raising a baby basilisk though.”

“Baby basilisk… …basilisk?”

A tail poked out from Lee Han’s sleeve and wiggled.

Hormashi saw it and slowly shook his head. Then he called Perse.

“Senior Perse! Come help with the support fund application!”

“Handle that much yourself! Are you calling me because it’s bothersome?”

“Even if I submit it, everyone will come to check anyway, so just come here and check it now!”

Hormashi wisely predicted the future.

If he submitted it like this, club members would get angry saying ‘Hormashi, don’t mess around with your junior’s application!’

In that case, it was better to just show them now.

“What nonsense…”

Perse approached grumbling as if he didn’t understand.

He was quite busy just explaining to the newly joined 2nd year students where they could get Einroguard’s rare animals and how to tame them.

Professor Bendozol wasn’t helping but rather interfering with words like ‘You guys aren’t qualified to tame them!’…

“Just come and take a look.”

“If you called me for something useless, junior education will be your job, Hormashi… Hormashi, don’t mess around with your junior’s application!”

Hormashi looked at Lee Han and winked with an expression that said ‘What did I tell you.’

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