Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 784

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Chapter 784

The message Lee Han sent with evil intentions arrived before long.

On the 7th floor, at the cafe 【The Sword-Wielding Mage】 where White Tiger Tower students mainly gathered, Giselle was sipping acorn coffee and resting when she received the message and looked puzzled.

“Wardanaz convinced Senior Jahan?”

“That’s right! Moradi. Congratulations!”

“You bastard, weren’t you bribed?”

The friends sitting nearby glared at him with great suspicion.

No matter how they thought about it, there was no reason for Wardanaz to just show kindness without any compensation.

“Wha… What?! Bribed?! You said bribed!? How dare you…! Draw your sword! It’s a duel!”

The White Tiger Tower student who was insulted by his friends jumped up and down furiously.

At that attitude, the other friends flinched slightly. They could feel his sincerity.

“Hmm. Maybe not? I might have thought wrong.”

“I’ll take back what I just said… Wait. Why do you smell like meat? It’s still far from Wardanaz’s distribution time, isn’t it?”

Although Wardanaz had secured plenty of food supplies through smuggling at the beginning of the semester, Einroguard’s ruthless rules made it impossible to purchase these food items freely.

The cruel and merciless upperclassmen wouldn’t just stand by and watch them buy cheaply and abundantly.

They had to secretly pay money on designated days at designated times, which other tower students called Wardanaz distribution.

Thanks to this, they didn’t starve to death, but they couldn’t eat as luxuriously as outside. Especially when calculating stockpiling for emergency situations.

But what was this meat smell about?

“Traces. Reveal yourself… Th, this bastard! What’s this! It looks like meat juice??”

“Wa, Wardanaz was working at the cooking club, so I secretly got one pork cutlet.”

“…You were bribed!! 100% bribery!!”

“I’m telling you it’s not! Choi was invited too!”

The White Tiger Tower students who were about to grab their friend immediately hesitated.

If Durgyu was also invited, the story was a bit different.

“If it’s Choi, then…”

“Come to think of it, that Wardanaz bastard even visited the Moradi family territory during winter break, right?”

“Shh. Be quiet. They say if you mention that, Moradi will try to kill you.”

“Why on earth?”

“Probably because if rumors spread about a political alliance between the northern Moradi family and the Wardanaz family, it could rally political enemies in the current imperial political system composed of loyalists, nobles, and neutrals.”

“Indeed. Especially the western noble families could react even more sensitively. They’re already spewing anger about the knights being deployed to the north first.”

“That’s right. We’re from knight families, but at the same time, we need to act honorably as Einroguard students.”

“…”

Giselle stopped mid-swing of her sword toward the back.

It was good that her friends’ intelligence had improved after adapting to magic school, but they kept using their intelligence on other things instead of magic.

“If he called Choi along too, it probably isn’t a trap. I don’t know what he’s thinking. It can’t be some childish idea like asking us to take difficult lectures together…”

“Uwahahaha! Moradi, even if you hate Wardanaz, still. Would someone like Wardanaz have such childish thoughts?!”

When all the White Tiger Tower students laughed mockingly, Giselle’s face also turned slightly red.

Even she thought it was too ridiculous a reason.

“I was just throwing it out there.”

“Kuhahahahahaha!”

“What do you guys think?”

“Uwahahahahahaha!”

Thwack thwack thwack!

“I asked what you think.”

“We, well. Maybe he just called Choi, but the senior wanted to teach you too, Moradi?”

“…”

Giselle frowned and then nodded.

She would find out when she went anyway.

* * *

“Huhu. How is everyone doing?”

“It’s, it’s tough but rewarding. Thank you. Lee Han.”

“…If I can learn like this in my spare time, it’s an honor. Wardanaz.”

“?”

Lee Han looked puzzled as he watched his two friends collapsed on the floor, panting.

Huh?

“Isn’t it painful and agonizing to come out in your spare time to learn like this? You won’t have any rest time, right?”

“Hmm. My next period is free, so it’s fine.”

“My next period is also free, so it doesn’t matter.”

“…”

Lee Han felt uneasy as his friends’ reactions were different from what he expected.

Normally it should have been ‘To think it was this kind of teaching, kugh, I was deceived!’…

…These two friends were accepting it better than he thought.

“By any chance, aren’t you angry that I called you for this kind of teaching?”

“It’s harsh and painful, but isn’t one lecture like this bearable?”

“I agree with what Choi said.”

-Don’t other people only take lectures like this like master does?

The baby basilisk tilted its head and asked.

Listening from inside the sleeve, other students’ lecture schedules seemed quite different from its master’s schedule.

It thought they should originally be much more harsh and painful…?

“…Indeed. One is bearable.”

“That’s right.”

“I’m going to attend my next lecture now. Are you interested in auditing together?”

“No?”

Giselle immediately answered as if asking what kind of nonsense that was.

Not only was Giselle not taking courses from all schools like Lee Han, she also wasn’t stupid enough to be greedy about areas she wasn’t currently learning.

Working hard on the lectures she was taking was sufficient.

“Auditing might be a good experience though?”

“…Wardanaz. You’re not doing this because I’m not having a hard time, are you?”

Giselle asked, thinking it couldn’t be.

She wondered if he was doing this because the two of them, unlike Wardanaz, had free time in their lecture schedules and sufficient rest, so they were accepting Senior Jahan’s teaching too easily.

“Moradi. That’s rude. What do you take Lee Han for to say such things? Lee Han convinced the senior for our sake.”

Durgyu scolded in a stern voice.

Convincing Senior Jahan to let friends learn together wasn’t something just anyone could do.

Giselle seemed to think so too, as she rarely apologized.

“That’s… right. I apologize. Wardanaz. I said something rude after receiving your help.”

“No. Haha. …Is anyone interested in magical combat by any chance?”

* * *

Lee Han headed toward the lecture hall with a bitter expression.

‘It’s unfair. Why do my friends take fewer difficult lectures?’

No matter how much he tried to think it couldn’t be helped, it was hard to accept easily.

Lee Han checked the lecture name.

【From Caterpillar to Dragon】

‘At least it’s easy to understand, which is fortunate.’

It was clearly a transformation magic lecture to anyone who looked.

The problem was what year level was this lecture!

‘I hope it’s second year, but it probably isn’t.’

None of his friends were taking 【From Caterpillar to Dragon】. He might have missed it, but for now he had to assume it wasn’t a second-year lecture.

High probability it was third year. With the probability of a meteor falling from a clear sky, fourth year…

Lee Han didn’t think Kalendarium would recommend a fourth-year lecture, but at Einroguard you could never let your guard down.

Tap tap tap tap!

“?”

Lee Han hesitated at the sight of a familiar senior running toward him from ahead.

“Senior Hormashi?”

“Oh, junior. What brings you here?”

The third-year senior from the polo club had been running like the wind but stopped when he spotted Lee Han.

“I’m going to attend a lecture.”

“There’s only one lecture hall in this alley, you know? You’re not going to listen to 【From Caterpillar to Dragon】, are you?”

“I came to attend that one.”

“What? That’s a third-year lecture…”

Karnella looked Lee Han up and down, then let out an “Ah” of understanding.

“Right, you’re that guy, aren’t you?”

“…”

“Well then. Welcome. There’s nothing wrong with learning transformation magic.”

Spinning the riding whip in her hand, Karnella welcomed her junior.

There was nothing wrong with having an excellent junior join the same school.

Of course, that junior did have a foot in every other school as well…

-Master. I’m scared of that person!

“?”

“Wait!”

Before Lee Han could even answer, Karnella stretched her hand forward and made a “Shh!” sound, signaling for quiet.

“What’s wrong?”

“Didn’t you just hear a basilisk cry?”

-…

The baby basilisk got chills and wrapped around Lee Han’s arm even tighter.

The moment it was dragged out of his sleeve, it felt like it would be captured by that merciless dark elf.

“Didn’t you mishear? Maybe another snake-type monster or…”

“No way, junior. What nonsense are you talking about? A basilisk’s cry has a different pitch from other snake-type monsters’ cries. You can’t not know that when you’re raising a basilisk!”

Karnella scolded her junior for saying strange things. Lee Han could understand why the baby basilisk was afraid of that senior.

“Wasn’t it your basilisk that spoke?”

“My basilisk is sleeping right now.”

“Hmm… If it woke up and spoke, I’d like to have a conversation with it.”

Karnella stared intently at Lee Han’s sleeve. Lee Han could feel the baby basilisk’s tail trembling pitifully.

“What kind of conversation would you want to have?”

“Nothing much.”

The tall dark elf senior shrugged with her arms crossed.

“What it likes to eat, when it sleeps and when it wakes up…”

‘That’s relatively okay.’

“When and how it does its business, when mating season comes…”

‘She’s crazy.’

Lee Han realized the baby basilisk’s instincts were right.

“Just casual small talk like that? I’d like to try using the basilisk language I studied.”

“You can speak basilisk language?!”

“I’m not fluent. I just learned it. But junior, if you’re attending the 【From Caterpillar to Dragon】 lecture, you’ll need to help this Hormashi out. I was just on my way to catch a senior.”

“A senior?”

“Yeah. This lecture is taught alternately by the professor and a senior. But the senior keeps running away.”

“…”

To Lee Han, who only knew of professors who ran away, a senior who ran away was somewhat refreshing.

“Is that allowed?”

“Usually not. You’d go to the punishment room.”

Actually, going to the punishment room was the problem – if you were prepared to go to the punishment room, there were surprisingly many things you could do at Einroguard.

Taking charge of lectures and fleeing, raiding the principal’s office, escaping from school, and so on.

Lee Han instinctively knew this would be a formidably crazy senior, even though he hadn’t met them yet.

“Oh, right. I heard you’re quite sociable?”

“Excuse me? Me?”

“I heard you dealt with the guests when the transformation mages gathered last year?”

“…Ah. That’s right.”

Lee Han’s face hardened as memories from last year came back.

The transformation school mages from outside were all energetic socialites who enjoyed conversation.

In contrast, Einroguard’s transformation school mages were relatively introverted people who wanted their junior to handle the troublesome tasks.

And Lee Han was the only junior there.

‘Even thinking about it now, it’s ridiculous.’

“I’m really glad a sociable junior joined. Our school doesn’t have sociable people.”

“But Senior Hormashi, aren’t you quite sociable?”

“Uh… well.”

Karnella scratched her cheek awkwardly.

Her junior’s words were only slightly right and mostly wrong.

“I usually… only know how to talk with people who like polo or animals. When I talk to people with other hobbies, they all run away?”

“…”

Lee Han finally remembered that ‘talkative’ wasn’t the same as ‘sociable.’

‘Come to think of it, Professor Verdus was talkative too…’

“What about the senior you’re looking for now?”

“Ah. This senior is the most…”

“The most?”

Lee Han hoped ‘sociable’ would follow.

“…unsociable and eccentric person.”

“Yes…”

Lee Han became depressed.

Why couldn’t he find a normal, decent senior at Einroguard?

Karnella patted Lee Han’s back hard as he grew gloomy, then encouraged him.

“But this senior does have good points!”

“What kind of good points…? Like the good point of running away from lectures?”

“Well. This senior has the best talent for making money at Einroguard.”

At those words, Lee Han’s heart, which had frozen like ice, began beating rapidly again.

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