Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 866

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Chapter 866

“Stop! This person is royalty. I won’t forgive you for touching them carelessly!”

“?”

When her junior drew his staff and shouted, Yukveltire looked around in surprise.

She wondered if someone was about to attack Yukveltire herself.

But there was no one there.

“Who are you talking to?”

“…To you, senior?”

“Why?”

“…Because you called out Prince Jowurin?”

“Dragons possess excellent intelligence as a race, so they demonstrate remarkable abilities in advanced mathematics and geometry. I thought it wouldn’t hurt for the 2nd year students here to listen.”

Lee Han nodded at Yukveltire’s perfect logic.

When his friend had said ‘Senior Yukveltire conducts lectures properly’ before, he had wondered what that meant, but seeing it now, she certainly seemed to conduct lectures properly.

“I see. Then please forget what I just shouted.”

Lee Han said this and sat down.

Naturally, Yukveltire didn’t let it slide.

“Wait.”

‘Damn.’

Lee Han realized his failure and looked up.

Should he have made an excuse that he shouted out of concern for Yukveltire, who was also royalty?

“Wardanaz family junior.”

“Yes, senior.”

“What’s that staff?”

“…”

* * *

Lee Han made excuses earnestly. Though it seemed like there were far more complaints about Professor Verdus than actual excuses, they were excuses nonetheless.

Diret, who had been hiding behind, also came out to earnestly support his junior.

“Professor Verdus forced him…!”

“Professor Verdus really…!”

“Anyway, Professor Verdus is…!”

“Professor Verdus is truly…!”

Not only the students in the lecture hall but even Jowurin nodded and spoke.

Professor Verdus really is a bad person!

“Yes.”

If Professor Garcia had been there, she would have somehow made some excuses for him, but unfortunately, only Professor Boladi was nearby.

Professor Boladi wasn’t very lenient toward mages who had a history of tormenting his disciple multiple times.

After cursing Professor Verdus hundreds of times, Diret glanced at his friend’s expression.

With such an expressionless and cold face, it was hard to know what she was thinking inside.

“…You’re not angry, are you, Yukveltire?”

“Diret. You’ve had the bad habit of pinning ridiculous accusations on me since long ago. Such emotional disturbances have nothing to do with me at all. Understand?”

‘What do you mean, when you sulked so much just because I didn’t help with your research once before.’

Diret grumbled inwardly.

Previously, when Yukveltire had asked for help with research saying ‘it’s fine if you don’t help,’ he thought it really was fine and declined saying ‘Ah sorry, I’m busy right now, I’ll help you next time.’

After that, Yukveltire disappeared, and when he went looking for her, she was staging a hunger strike in her own workshop.

She insisted with her own mouth that she ‘just forgot to eat because she was busy,’ but from Diret’s perspective, it was 100% sulking because he didn’t help with the research.

‘But I have to endure it now.’

It would be one thing if it were just him, but he couldn’t let her sulk at his junior too. That would be too petty.

“Of course, I did configure the form to match the unusual properties of obsidian as a staff material. I also prepared several spells and essences in advance. Just because Professor Verdus completed what I was trying to finish myself doesn’t disturb me at all. Understand?”

“…Yes…”

Lee Han felt slightly sorry.

In other situations, he would have thought ‘so what’ even if Yukveltire had thrown a tantrum on the floor like Professor Verdus, but regarding this staff, he had definitely received help.

“Lee Han. The senior seems angry.”

“I thought so too.”

His friends all had similar opinions.

Anyone could see that she was definitely angry. Even her sister Adenart agreed.

“That does seem like anger…”

“On what basis are you saying such things? Unbelievable. Adenart. Are you even a mage after saying that? At what minute, what hour, what second is there such evidence?”

“Eek.”

Adenart flinched at her sister’s anger, which she was seeing for the first time.

She wasn’t usually like this, but whatever Wardanaz had done, he seemed to have given her a really huge shock.

“…Shall I help with the artificial dimension artifact research?”

Yukveltire’s hand, which had been clenched tightly with anger at the world, loosened slightly.

“Why? Didn’t you say you weren’t particularly interested?”

“After thinking about it again carefully, it seems like a truly excellent research. Come to think of it, it really is remarkable research. While someone else is wasting their life trying to make some strange airship, my goodness. I wish they would look at this and learn.”

Yukveltire’s hand loosened a bit more.

“If your thoughts have changed like that, I might consider allowing your participation.”

“Ah. Senior.”

“What is it?”

“I think I’ll be busy during the semester, so would it be okay if I help during vacation?”

“…”

Yukveltire’s fingertips trembled again.

* * *

But Yukveltire ultimately couldn’t severely scold and chase away the impudent junior.

He was too precious a talent for that.

“Then let’s start the lecture. Adenart. You can see the positions of two dark planets drawn on the coordinate plane now. Express the distance between them in coordinates and prove that formula.”

“…”

Adenart was flustered by the immediate revenge.

“I… I don’t know.”

“I see. Next. Gainando. On the coordinate plane now…”

“I don’t know!”

“Listen to the full question before answering. On the coordinate plane now drawn…”

Yukveltire concentrated her questions on the juniors who had said she was angry earlier.

Her pettiness was so obvious that even the students listening to the lecture were murmuring.

Diret covered her face with her wings in embarrassment. She felt like she wouldn’t be able to reveal they were friends anywhere in the future.

‘Amazing!’

Lee Han was impressed.

The most surprising thing was that Yukveltire herself had no idea that she was sulking and taking revenge.

The juniors she happened to pick were just the ones who had said she was angry earlier!

‘Sorry. Even I find this a bit scary.’

Though Lee Han had boldly confronted Yukveltire until now, this time was a bit different.

Even among seniors, a senior standing behind the podium had a different kind of authority.

He had no choice but to endure it, not knowing what might happen if he provoked her carelessly.

Jowurin! Jowurin will answer! First, we need to bring an absolute inequality…!

Jowurin, who had been feeling restless, finally raised his front paw high and shouted.

Since he knew the answer, it was hard to hold back.

Fortunately, Yukveltire didn’t stop Jowurin and gave him a chance to answer.

“Please explain, Your Majesty.”

Jowurin excitedly wagged his wings and tail as he explained.

Of course, just because Jowurin was excitedly explaining didn’t mean the students’ intelligence rose along with it. Most of the students were either dozing off or just watching with their mouths agape.

Servant. Servant! You understood Jowurin’s explanation, right?

“…Ah. Me.”

Gainando, who had been wondering who was being called, belatedly understood.

He could hear the White Tiger Tower students whispering behind him.

-A servant?

-That bastard prince…

Gainando’s face turned red.

What kind of humiliation was this because of his wicked half-sister!

-I’m jealous. That bastard gets to do something like that alone.

-It’s probably thanks to his bloodline. Hmph! I’m not jealous at all.

“?”

Gainando doubted his ears.

‘No way. Are the White Tiger Tower guys jealous of being a servant? Why on earth?’

True to their nasty and strange nature, they seemed to be envious of all sorts of things. Gainando was dumbfounded.

Poke poke-

“Gainando, Gainando!”

“Huh, what?”

When his friends poked him and called out, Gainando turned his head.

“Say you understood everything!”

“What? I didn’t understand, so how can I?”

“Ask Wardanaz to tell you the answer!”

It wasn’t just that Jowurin would be disappointed, but he might think all of Einroguard’s 2nd years were stupid.

This was, in a way, a matter of pride for Einroguard’s 2nd years.

“I understood! …Lee Han! Lee Han!”

Ah. Wait!

Jowurin crawled over with big steps, scooped up Lee Han with his front paw, and carried him back to the front of the podium in his embrace.

Then he asked Gainando again.

Good! Tell me what Jowurin just explained!

“…!”

Lee Han was amazed.

Both the lecture content and everything else really seemed like he was born with intelligence as a racial trait.

Of course, Lee Han’s amazement couldn’t compare to Gainando’s shock.

‘That… that wicked dragon really…!’

Gainando trembled.

Once he returned, he would sabotage things so she could never come to Einroguard again!

“But senior.”

Lee Han, captured by Jowurin, called out to Yukveltire who was standing nearby.

“?”

“What happened to Professor Knighton?”

Einroguard professors were divided into the diligent ones and Verdus. Professor Alpen, befitting his background as a high-ranking imperial official, naturally belonged to the diligent category.

For such a person not to show up for lectures, Lee Han couldn’t help but worry about natural disasters.

‘Like being kidnapped by a crazy ancient projection.’

“The Principal called for him.”

“…The Principal? Why?”

Yukveltire shrugged her shoulders slightly and shook her head. That meant she didn’t know that much either.

In fact, if Professor Alpen hadn’t mentioned it before leaving, she wouldn’t have known even this. Yukveltire was as uninterested in others as Professor Verdus.

Hmm! Gonadaltes is busy working in the capital right now. Professor Knighton is probably helping with that too!

When a story he knew came up, Jowurin excitedly explained to Lee Han.

Of course, Lee Han wasn’t excited at all. Just the fact that the Skeleton Principal wasn’t at school felt ominous and dangerous.

“…What kind of work are they doing?”

Huh?

Jowurin hesitated because he didn’t know the details.

Well… this and that… getting permission… getting annoyed…?

“??”

…Jowurin is sorry…

“No. That was plenty helpful. Thank you, Your Majesty.”

Lee Han comforted Jowurin while wondering inwardly.

‘What kind of permission is he trying to get that makes him annoyed? Is he expanding the school? Or acquiring and merging with Baldroguard?’

The only person the Skeleton Principal would need permission from was about the Emperor level, and it certainly wouldn’t be a trivial permission.

He had even called Professor Alpen to the capital.

He couldn’t even guess what kind of matter that would be.

Getting more budget to expand Einroguard buildings, getting more budget to expand territory, getting permission to destroy Baldroguard…

“Senior. What do you think the Principal is trying to get permission for?”

“5th year research support expansion?”

‘I shouldn’t have asked.’

Lee Han regretted asking Yukveltire. Meanwhile, Yukveltire called Diret and said,

“I need to escort Prince Jowurin and I think I’ll need help. I’ll help too.”

“Ah. Uh. That. Yes. Mm.”

“?”

“Well… that…”

When Diret couldn’t speak because of friendship, Lee Han stepped forward.

Originally, juniors should handle this kind of dirty work.

“Senior. Prince Jowurin carries around powerful reagents, don’t you find them tempting?”

“Coveting a dragon’s body just because of powerful reagents is moronic. I don’t know what you’re talking about, Wardanaz family junior.”

Though she was misunderstood by the world as little Verdus, Yukveltire fundamentally had much higher social intelligence than Professor Verdus.

Even if you were immediately tempted and touched a dragon’s body, you’d only face terrible retaliation in the end. It was impossible for a mere mage to prevent a dragon’s revenge.

“…Right! I don’t understand why people don’t know that!”

“That’s right. Dragons never give away parts of themselves to others. Remember that well.”

Oh.

Jowurin, who had been listening from the side, was flustered.

Was that how it was?

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