Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 923
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Chapter 923
“Huh? Wardanaz. What are you doing?”
While Lee Han was tormenting his junior, friends who had finished their exams came in one by one.
Even from the friends’ perspective, Eandurude’s current state didn’t look very good.
With a gloomy face groaning like that, whatever mistake he had made, wouldn’t it be better to forgive him…
“I was explaining his exam mistakes.”
“Aha!”
The friends quickly threw their backpacks on the floor and fled to their private rooms upstairs.
They realized that if they stayed too long, arrows would come flying at them too.
Eandurude glared at the backs of the cowardly upperclassmen with contemptuous eyes.
What despicable deserters!
“Hik.”
“What?”
When his junior suddenly let out a death cry, Lee Han turned his head in puzzlement.
Yoner was coming in with his friends from behind.
“Ubububu!”
“I understand.”
Lee Han caught the meaning in his junior’s desperate gaze and groaning sounds.
The heavy exam papers that had been on the desk quickly disappeared and hid below. It was 【Wardanaz’s Telekinesis】.
Eandurude looked at his senior with eyes full of emotion and respect.
As expected, the magic of Einroguard upperclassmen was nothing short of extraordinary.
“Ah. Eandurude, you’re here?”
“Yes, yep.”
“How was the exam?”
“…”
Despite having hidden the exam papers, Yoner’s question immediately checking about the exam made Eandurude’s complexion darken again.
“Well… um… uh…”
“He did his best. He didn’t even fail.”
Lee Han found himself making excuses for his junior without realizing it. Gainando was impressed.
“Not failing. That’s amazing?”
“…Hey. You go away.”
“Right. You go away.”
“Ah, no, why…”
When friends scolded him, worried that the junior might receive bad influence, Gainando became dejected and backed away.
Isn’t praise necessary too?
“Can you show me the exam paper?”
“Yes yes yep.”
“Why is the exam paper in here?”
Yoner looked puzzled at the exam paper popping out from the hidden space below the common room floor.
Lee Han shrugged and made an excuse.
“Maybe he was worried it would blow away in the wind.”
“Really…?”
Though he didn’t quite understand, Yoner didn’t ask further and checked the grades first.
“Wow. You did well?”
Eandurude’s face brightened.
“But this alchemy exam here is a bit disappointing.”
Eandurude’s face darkened.
“Of course, your decision to use Seolrakcho was very good.”
Eandurude’s face brightened again.
“But if you had used Binghansan together here, the effect would have been even better.”
“Yoner.”
“Hm?”
“Actually, I already told him that earlier.”
“Ah. Really?”
The friends watched the scene from behind and thought to themselves.
‘This is why first years are protected separately.’
When they were freshmen, they had complained about why they were kept separate from upperclassmen, but now they seemed to understand the reason.
If this happened every exam time…!
“Now. Eandurude.”
When the painful review ended, Lee Han packed much more food baskets for his junior than usual.
Gainando, who was seeing him off together, noticed this and asked a question.
“Huh? Isn’t that more than usual?”
“He might not come for a while.”
Originally, students who got scolded because of exams tended to avoid approaching for a while.
Just looking at Gainando, you could tell.
“I was fine, but Yoner is strict, you see.”
“…”
Gainando was shocked by his shameless friend’s words and his mouth fell open.
From Gainando’s perspective, both of them were equally strict in tormenting the junior.
‘Su-such ridiculous words said so confidently without changing expression…!’
“What’s wrong?”
“I’m, I’m impressed! Taking care of a junior like this! Lee Han, you’re the best!”
“Hehe. It’s nothing much.”
Lee Han was pleased by his friend’s praise and turned his steps. Gainando felt deep guilt.
To tell such ridiculous lies to his friend because of snacks!
* * *
When the weekend of midterm exam week arrived, all the 2nd year students turned into lazy bums and stuck to the common room.
“c4…”
“Then dxc4… the pawn…”
“Then I… transform the queen into a dragon… with breath…”
“Did you eat hallucinogenic mushrooms… no… yes, use breath… then I summon the Principal…”
Even students who usually tried their best to play whenever they had even a little time became languid and just talked with their mouths.
Everyone was half-exhausted because of the midterm exams that had become much harder than last year.
Teapots floated around in the air. Lee Han lightly moved his fingertips to fill his friends’ cups with hot cocoa and coffee.
Actually, the time when you felt the sense of training as a mage most strongly was exactly at times like this.
When being lazy with magic.
If Lee Han’s masters heard this, they would grab the back of their necks…
Looking to the side, Gainando was also lying on the floor with a blank expression, just looking around at mage cards.
“Come to think of it, Wardanaz.”
“?”
“I heard that clubs will also start external activities in earnest after exams end, have you heard anything?”
Einroguard students were basically busy and unhappy regardless of their year.
Even clubs that gathered for social purposes couldn’t escape from that.
When busy with exams or research, club schedules were also postponed, and they would do everything at once when free.
‘That was definitely the case.’
Lee Han recalled memories he had heard from some upperclassmen.
Surely after exams ended…
-Puhuh. Wardanaz. Just bear with it a little longer! Once the exams are over, we can go outside and share meals with poor people!
-…It’s certainly a good deed, but is it really something to be that excited about?
-Ah. Of course! When we go out for activities, we receive tons and tons of ingredients as gifts!
‘Hmm. Other clubs…’
-Ah. Junior. Once the exams are over, it’ll be time for polo in earnest.
-Yes. I see.
-But by any chance, couldn’t we have Prince Jowurin participate? Would that be too much after all?
Lee Han shook his head.
For some reason, only strange clubs kept coming to mind.
“I’ve heard of the Cooking Club and Polo Club.”
“Oh. Then what about the Hunters Club?”
“No. I’m not sure about that one.”
“What about the Adventurers Club? The Mage Card Club?”
“The Outing Club? The Statue Making Club?”
As questions poured in, Lee Han corrected his slouched position and sat up straight.
“Wait. Why are you asking me this? I’m not even a member of those clubs.”
“Huh? You didn’t join?!”
“…”
Lee Han glared at his friends as if dumbfounded. His friends cleared their throats awkwardly and avoided his gaze.
“Ah, no. We thought you had joined them all…”
“Come to think of it, you didn’t join all the unofficial clubs. Ahem.”
The Blue Dragon Tower students who had naturally assumed their friend from the Wardanaz family would have joined clubs felt very embarrassed.
“How did you even get the mistaken idea that I joined when I never even went there in the first place?”
“Well, we thought you were just too busy to be seen…”
“…”
Lee Han couldn’t argue with that.
Even for the clubs he had actually joined, he had appeared quite sporadically due to being busy.
Yoner, who was sitting nearby, spoke up.
“Our club is going out to watch a play.”
Yoner was someone who had received invitations from various clubs, just like Nilia.
He had shown up at the Cooking Club and several other clubs and pondered, but ultimately joined the unofficial Einroguard Theater Club along with Nilia (Lee Han was certain that Nilia, who didn’t want to join alone, had grabbed his ankle and begged desperately).
The Einroguard Theater Club was an unofficial club, but as its name suggested, it was a club that simply enjoyed various cultured activities.
By Lee Han’s standards, it made no money at all so he hadn’t even bothered to remember its name, but thanks to that, the atmosphere within the club was calm and friendly.
“No way. That’s actually normal?!”
“Well, of course it’s normal…”
When Lee Han was surprised, Yoner found it absurd.
Was external activity being normal really that surprising?
“Sorry. I naturally thought that club activities should be followed by notable achievements and plenty of gold coins.”
‘He’s my friend, but sometimes he seems crazy.’
“That makes sense too. Unofficial clubs have a hard time going out in the first place anyway.”
Hearing Yoner’s words, Lee Han recalled a rule he had forgotten.
Come to think of it, it was the official clubs that had outing privileges.
How could the unofficial Theater Club go out so easily?
“I get it. You convinced the professors with a plan to recreate Einroguard’s miserable reality through plays to earn gold coins.”
“…No, that’s not it. We were just invited.”
Students sometimes forgot, but Einroguard was the Empire’s premier magic school.
There were plenty of distinguished people in the Empire who wanted to invite students from such a place to show them their art.
No matter how spiteful the Skeleton Principal was, he couldn’t reject all such invitations.
Lee Han was shocked.
He hadn’t paid attention to cultural and artistic clubs, but there was such a loophole?
“Such…! I should join right now and smuggle…!”
“…Calm down! It’s not that extreme.”
Yoner calmed his friend down.
The Skeleton Principal wouldn’t be kind to such idle pursuits. When the Theater Club went out, unprecedented surveillance followed.
A level of surveillance completely different from the usual ‘try to break through if you can’ level of monitoring.
“What level are we talking about?”
Still, Lee Han couldn’t give up his lingering attachment and asked.
“Under the pretext of protecting Einroguard’s mages, they block off the city’s main roads and alleys, clear out people, and empty all the shops and stores too. Death Knights surround and escort them.”
“…I should cancel joining then.”
Lee Han quickly gave up.
It seemed the Theater Club was definitely one that the Skeleton Principal particularly hated among Einroguard’s clubs.
Well, since all the club members were happy and enjoying themselves, how could he not hate it?
“Hmph. Still, the Theater Club is lucky.”
Gainando muttered in a gloomy voice.
“What’s wrong?”
“The club I belong to is having trouble even going out, so they’re scheming.”
The Mage Card Club, no, the Mage Card Collecting Club (they were strictly different clubs) was an unofficial club.
Since their plans to go out immediately were unclear, they couldn’t help but envy the Theater Club, which received external invitations even while staying put.
“An official club would be better…”
‘There’s no such thing as a perfect club.’
Lee Han felt this anew.
Official clubs had easy outings but harsh tasks to perform, while unofficial clubs had freedom in their activities but difficulty going out.
…There were mutants like the Theater Club, but those were exceptions…
‘Wait. Then.’
Lee Han did a quick calculation.
Among the clubs he had joined, the official clubs would each likely go out, but what about the unofficial clubs?
First, the Einroguard Social Club was a ghost club created by Yukveltire, who was furthest from socializing, so it wouldn’t be active.
And the Teleportation Club was…
‘…That would be impossible, right?’
No matter how plausible a plan they devised, the most unofficial of unofficial clubs would have difficulty going out.
What crazy professor would allow such a club to go out?
The Teleportation Club would definitely be active within the school. Lee Han resolved to thoroughly patrol the outer warehouses for a while.
* * *
“No. We’re going out too.”
“…What?! Are you talking about the Library Club?!”
Lee Han was startled by the words of Sevius, the hamster beastkin fourth-year senior.
“…No. I’m talking about the Teleportation Club.”
“Ah. You mean escaping.”
Lee Han nodded as if he understood.
Naturally, Lee Han also called it ‘going out’ when escaping. Who would speak of it literally?
“We’re really going out. We submitted a plan and got special permission.”
“…Wh-what kind of plan did you submit??”
“Retrieving magical items that the professors want.”
“…”
At this point, wasn’t it just an official club?
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