Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 94

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“You really grew that yourself?”

 

Salko asked with a voice mixed with surprise and curiosity.

 

A Blue Dragon Tower student, and moreover, a boy from the Wardanaz Family, one of the most prominent great families of the Empire.

 

To think such a boy had personally grown those fresh, appetizing, glossy, and plump potatoes.

 

It was hard to believe even hearing it.

 

“Yes. I grew them myself.”

 

Lee Han readily nodded his head.

 

Other Black Turtle Tower students who had been watching stepped forward.

 

“Wardanaz really grew them himself, Tutanta.”

 

“I was personally treated to them last time! They were really delicious!”

 

“I see. What did you pay?”

 

Salko asked his friends.

 

The Black Turtle Tower students hesitated.

 

…We just ate them…

 

“Don’t tell me you ate them for free without any payment??”

 

Salko said with glaring eyes. With a menacing expression as if he might swing a hammer at any moment, the Black Turtle Tower students were terrified.

 

The Tutanta Family’s motto was simple.

 

-Those who do not work shall not eat.

 

Even if they were friends from the same tower, eating for free without working was an unforgivable evil act.

 

Something only conscienceless nobles or knights would do!

 

“Uh… er… no…”

 

Lee Han, unable to watch any longer, stepped in.

 

“They helped me, so I treated them as payment for that.”

 

“!”

 

The Black Turtle Tower students looked at Lee Han with moved expressions.

 

‘Wardanaz…!’

 

“That’s right! That’s what happened!”

 

“We helped Wardanaz!”

 

At those words, Salko relaxed his expression.

 

“That’s a relief. I was worried you might have done something like eating from others without any payment.”

 

“There’s no way we’d do that, Salko.”

 

“The word I hate most is freeloading, Salko.”

 

“Right. I understand.”

 

Lee Han asked Salko, who was about to walk away.

 

“Would you like to take a potato?”

 

The reason Lee Han asked Salko was simple.

 

First, everyone liked the potatoes grown in the vegetable garden. Even the Imperial Princess praised them highly.

 

Of course, Lee Han was recently suspecting, contrary to what his followers said, that the Imperial Princess might just find everything delicious…

 

And earlier, Salko had been staring very intently at the potatoes in Lee Han’s basket.

 

Either he liked potatoes or he had a grudge against them – one of the two.

 

“…No. I’m fine. I don’t have anything to pay you with right now.”

 

“It’s okay to just take one.”

 

“Don’t insult me, Wardanaz. A dwarf of the Tutanta Family doesn’t accept charity without doing any work.”

 

‘But you’re an elf…’

 

Before Lee Han could say anything, Salko hurried away. As if staring at the potatoes too long might make him succumb to their temptation.

 

* * *

 

“These are difficult times for thieves like me.”

 

Ratford, meeting Lee Han, nodded and explained what had happened.

 

Originally, Black Turtle Tower students, being from diverse backgrounds, tended to gather and play separately.

 

But as time passed, certain figures were bound to emerge and distinguish themselves.

 

Tutanta Salko was exactly that kind of dwarf—no, elf.

 

Thanks to his excellent magical skills and rock-solid sense of responsibility, the number of friends following Tutanta grew.

 

‘Why is Nilia…’

 

Lee Han suddenly felt sorry for Nilia.

 

Nilia had also given much to the Black Turtle Tower students, but while the Black Turtle Tower friends liked Nilia, they didn’t trust and follow her as a leader.

 

It was the complete opposite of Salko.

 

‘Is it the difference between a dark elf and an elf? No. I don’t think that’s the reason.’

 

Anyway, Salko’s followers increased, and at the same time, the black market operated by Black Turtle Tower gradually grew in scale.

 

Blue Dragon Tower and White Tiger Tower students who heard rumors also started coming to exchange various supplies.

 

Then problems gradually began to increase.

 

-Why does this cost five pieces of bread!

 

-You can’t do this here!

 

-Hey, this coffee is fake! Give me back my bread!

 

-I told you already purchased items can’t be refunded! And I said from the beginning it was fake coffee made from dandelions!

 

As students from other towers came and went, problems were bound to increase.

 

Yet Black Turtle Tower students found it difficult to fight back strongly when conflicts arose with other tower students.

 

The other party was from great noble families or knight families.

 

So Black Turtle Tower students asked the most reliable person—not Nilia, but Salko.

 

Salko decided to accept after much consideration, but instead demanded they follow his rules strictly.

 

-If you want those other tower guys to follow my rules, you need to follow them first!

 

-Got it, Tutanta!

 

-Of course we should follow your rules!

 

-First, remember that if you don’t work, you shouldn’t eat either.

 

-That’s a good rule!

 

-Those other tower guys will never be able to follow it, right?

 

-Similarly, stolen goods are also prohibited.

 

-…

 

-…

 

-Why are you like that? Is there a problem?

 

-No! There isn’t!

 

Naturally there were complaints, but it was true that other problems disappeared thanks to Salko’s growling.

 

After hearing the full explanation, Lee Han was indignant.

 

“Anyway, it’s the same story of innocent people suffering because of a few troublemakers. Because of those White Tiger Tower guys, thieves like you and me are about to starve to death.”

 

“Exactly.”

 

Ratford nodded vigorously in agreement.

 

“That must be tough, Ratford. So what are you doing now?”

 

“Ah. I’m fine. I’m secretly selling stolen goods.”

 

Lee Han was slightly impressed by Ratford’s nonchalant words. He truly wasn’t a professional thief for nothing.

 

To think he was running a black market within the black market…

 

“Of course, since I can’t do it openly, the scale has decreased a lot. Instead, I’m doing something else.”

 

“?”

 

Ratford pointed to one side of the black market. Several Black Turtle Tower students were sitting and doing something other than business.

 

“L-look carefully at this. There’s an Emperor card among these three cards. I’ll flip them over and shuffle… if you find it, it’s double.”

 

Flip three cards over, then shuffle them around dazzlingly, and if you find the Emperor card, you get double the money you bet.

 

…it’s gambling!

 

“Is gambling okay?”

 

“The Tutanta don’t like gambling, but… they did allow gambling. If we banned even that kind of thing, well… there would be too much discontent.”

 

Looking at the ratio of criminals alone, Black Turtle Tower had the most.

 

Those from thief guilds, gambling guilds, and such backgrounds usually entered Black Turtle Tower.

 

Salko knew this too, so he turned a blind eye to such money games, calling them labor.

 

Besides card matching gambling, there were various other activities like chess betting and lock picking services (which seemed to be Ratford’s job).

 

‘What is this, an adventurer’s guild?’

 

“Aaaah! My bread!! My 3 days’ worth of bread!!”

 

“S-sorry. I shuffled moderately slowly, but…”

 

A White Tiger Tower student clutched his head and screamed in despair. It seemed he had lost his fortune.

 

“Don’t give up, Dukema. You just had bad luck this time. Let’s try once more!”

 

“It’s not that hard! You’ll get it this time!”

 

Lee Han looked at his opponent. It was a face he had seen before.

 

It was Ymirg, the giant hybrid he had met in Professor Mortum’s dark magic class.

 

Lee Han was strangely impressed.

 

‘Certainly, if you’re a giant, opponents would let their guard down.’

 

To anyone watching, Ymirg’s massive hands would seem clumsy and slow.

 

But Lee Han could clearly see it.

 

Ymirg was subtly showing off his skills while shuffling the cards.

 

‘He’s good.’

 

Since this was a world with magic, it was easy to think there was no place for magic tricks that relied on skill and technique.

 

However, there were still people who learned such sleight of hand.

 

They were the gamblers from gambling guilds.

 

Since cheating with magic had a high chance of getting caught, they competed with pure hand skills.

 

Lee Han suspected Ymirg might be from a gambling guild.

 

“Never compete against Ymirg.”

 

Misunderstanding Lee Han’s gaze, Ratford advised him.

 

Even Ratford, who had considerable sleight of hand skills, had never won against Ymirg.

 

He was such a master that he had no rivals within Black Turtle Tower.

 

“I’m not really interested in gambling, Ratford. I was just watching for fun.”

 

Lee Han clenched and opened his fist. The coin disappeared. Ratford said in amazement.

 

“As expected, Lord Wardanaz! I thought you had excellent thief qualities, and it wasn’t just my imagination!”

 

“Keep your voice down, it’s embarrassing if others hear.”

 

Getting such an enthusiastic reaction from simple coin magic made him feel even more awkward.

 

“No, Lord Wardanaz. If you have such skills, you’re more than qualified to claim a spot here.”

 

“…”

 

Lee Han was momentarily tempted.

 

It sounded quite appealing.

 

‘Was all my practice in spare moments for this very moment?’

 

To extort bread and meat from the White Tiger Tower students’ pockets…

 

“But I’m from a different tower.”

 

“I’ll speak to them. There are several friends here who owe you favors, so it should be fine.”

 

However, before Ratford could get up, Salko appeared from behind.

 

Behind Salko stood the Black Turtle Tower students he had spoken with earlier, looking like criminals.

 

“Wardanaz. When I asked again, these friends said they ate without paying anything.”

 

‘Those loose-lipped bastards.’

 

Lee Han cursed the Black Turtle Tower students.

 

If they were going to deny it, they should have denied it to the end, but they couldn’t even do that.

 

Lee Han was different. He was confident he could deny it until the world ended.

 

“I had no choice. Our family motto is ‘Share food with the hungry.'”

 

Lee Han’s appearance had the power to make even nonsense sound serious.

 

The students listening unconsciously nodded in agreement.

 

Indeed!

 

No wonder Wardanaz fed other friends so well…

 

“I’m not here to blame you, Wardanaz. It’s not your fault. I came to apologize for my friends’ mistake. That was irresponsible behavior that only lazy nobles or violent knights would do.”

 

Salko bowed his head in apology. The Black Turtle Tower friends also bowed their heads, reading the mood.

 

Then students from other towers who were waiting outside the black market protested.

 

“That’s too harsh!”

 

“Lazy nobles! You don’t know how hard the life of a noble is!”

 

“Do you know how heavy the honor and responsibility we carry as knights is?!”

 

‘Even though they’re friends from the same tower, they’re really annoying.’

 

Lee Han almost took Salko’s side for a moment.

 

These shameless and conscienceless bastards…

 

Salko completely ignored them, pretending not to hear.

 

“I’d like to make them pay for what they ate, but my friends don’t have that much right now.”

 

“You don’t need to worry about it.”

 

While Blue Dragon Tower friends kept ledgers recording every silver coin, he had no intention of doing the same with Black Turtle Tower students.

 

“No. I’ll pay instead.”

 

“!”

 

Lee Han was surprised.

 

He would pay instead.

 

‘The Tutanta Family must have a lot of money.’

 

Being a famous stonemason guild family in the Empire, they couldn’t be short of money.

 

Lee Han pondered how much to charge for the tomato vegetable stew from last time.

 

“I heard rumors that you, Wardanaz, have been wandering around the school at night. Is that true?”

 

“I don’t know what ridiculous rumors you’ve heard, but that’s completely false.”

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

The Blue Dragon Tower and White Tiger Tower students listening from outside the black market were dumbfounded.

 

‘Does that bastard have iron plates on his face…?’

 

‘The Wardanaz Family must teach emotion training methods too.’

 

Despite Lee Han’s denial, Salko stubbornly continued what he wanted to say.

 

“There’s information that might be helpful for that.”

 

“!”

How to Survive as a Mage in a Magic School

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