chapter 18
Academy’s Genius Tamer Episode 18
smart.
Count Han Tae-soo, who was wielding a fountain pen at the sound of knocking on the door, raised his head.
The face, whose expression could not be read, was motionless as usual. One of the attendants stood in front with his back bowed.
This is news about Ardel Academy.
Since he has poured a considerable amount of money as a sponsor every year, there are people all over the Ardel Academy who will be his eyes and ears.
He probably came with Han Si-ha’s news.
“How are you doing?”
“Things don’t seem to be going so well. They say they are starving.”
Just paying tuition and dormitory fees was a consideration he couldn’t even imagine.
If I fail this promotion exam, even that application will be cut off.
In any case, I had an intuition that there would be no place to eat until my promotion to the second year was confirmed and I was assigned to the dormitory.
“Yeah, you won’t die.”
“However… .”
The servant looked at the count and seemed to be hoping for mercy, but the reply he received was cold.
“That’s how you calm yourself down. If you ever say such blasphemous words in front of me again, it’d be good to tell the bullshit that you’ll be kicked out.”
Tae-soo Han looked down and calmly turned over the documents.
It’s not that the worst-case ripples were not taken into account. Han Tae-soo muttered softly with a cold gaze.
“… Twice is not that difficult.”
It must be evidence that he was shaken from giving such a grace period to him, who didn’t even hesitate at all when he expelled his older brother.
flap-.
Han Tae-soo, who was emotionally flipping through a single sheet of paper, stopped at the following words of the servant.
“However, it seems that things have changed properly this time, in this promotion test… You’ve had unprecedented good results… .”
“Yeah, it would have been enough to have barely escaped last place.”
“no. They say it’s 11th.”
tuk.
The missing fountain pen dripped ink onto the crisp new paper. Black ink smeared over the letters.
Normally, he would have obsessively tore the documents, but he raised his head and opened his eyes.
“What?”
11th from the back.
it… Isn’t that a great score?
“You mean there were ten people behind you?”
“Yes?”
Did you get your mind right?
No, how could there be a double-digit number of students at the back?
Han Tae-soo’s dry expression turns into astonishment.
Meanwhile, the servant, who noticed the strangeness in his words, corrected it.
“No, not behind. in front… You said you were in 11th place.”
“In front, or 11th in front?”
For a moment, my mind went blank.
Tae-soo Han doubted my ears and looked at the servant.
The servant’s expression was serious. If you don’t want to die, there’s no way you’re joking with yourself right now.
The servant caught the slightly changing face of Han Tae-soo and put the words on it.
“It is said that the reputation has also changed there.”
It’s a rumor circulating in Ardel fortress… The words of the servant who begin with are followed.
“The master is merciful.”
Well?
“It’s my child, but it’s not.”
“He is upright like a pine tree… .”
“Absolutely not.”
“Rumors say he’s handsome… .”
“That’s right. It resembles me.”
silence follows.
The servant closes his eyes with an expression that he does not know what to say. A slow response returns.
“of course. You sure look alike.”
“Great.”
Han Tae-soo frowned and coughed belatedly.
“I don’t think he was threatening to arrest a commoner and spread strange rumors.”
“Is that possible? Just looking at the test results is proof that things are definitely changing.”
is changing
A servant’s word throws a stone into the still lake.
Han Tae-soo frowned and fell into thought.
After all, there was only one person who would inherit the Castilian estate, Han Si-ha.
A child who was bright as a child, his expectations must have been high. His talent quickly ran out.
Still, the reason why he couldn’t throw it away was because he was the only ‘proper’ child.
sad kid Maybe it was his own fault that he was crooked because he didn’t receive love.
Hearing the change, Han Tae-soo wanted to look forward to it a little.
“It will have to change.”
Even if it was his own child, he couldn’t raise a guy who wanted to touch black magic.
He was the one who made a big contribution to the creation of the Ardel Empire during the last war.
A Blood Count created by purging the Warlocks.
That’s why I can’t leave a child like that.
You can tell if he really changed his mind by looking at the promotion ceremony.
Han Tae-soo opened his mouth as if he had made up his mind.
“Magic and.”
The servant raised his head in surprise.
“If you are promoted to the Department of Magic, you will receive all financial support… We will resume.”
* * *
At the same time, Crick was muttering to himself with his head wrapped around him.
weird. No matter how you think about it, it’s really weird.
Rumors about Han Si-ha spread throughout the sophomore year of Ardel Academy.
It was a warm story about how Han Si-ha forgave herself because she was merciful, upright, and had a great heart.
no, that’s it though.
“What are the rumors about being handsome?”
this bastard, this It was clear that he was being sarcastic.
Crick nervously closed the book and tilted the chair back.
The reason for spreading that rumor is already strange enough, but there was something even more strange than that.
Crick recalled the conversation he had with Siha Han.
-Why did you look at me?
You could do anything if you put your mind to it.
He could have knelt down in a lecture hall where students were standing in a row, and even if he had stabbed Han Tae-soo with words, he would surely have died.
However, Hanshiha replaced all the punishment with a strange request.
He chuckled and said:
– Because it’s not fun.
-yes?
-It’s fun to eat people who are a little bit peculiar, you… Okay.
Han Si-ha added remarks with words that she did not know whether it was a curse or a compliment.
– Fabian that machine. Long name.
– The imperial family, the imperial family!
– Yes, the royal family. I wanted to see him bark.
As he said those words, Hanshi smirked.
-It’s actually more fun to tease those kids.
… He was crazy too.
He is a human being of a level that he cannot imagine.
For three days after that, Crick worked hard to avoid Han Si-Ha.
But in the end, it was impossible to completely avoid it, so we had to run into each other a few times.
Every time he met him, he pretended to be friendly and teased him.
“I don’t want to meet you. I don’t want to see you!”
No matter how good it goes, a tough opponent is still a tough one.
Crick groaned and muttered a little. Still, if it was a relief, it was that the day we met was really short.
If you’re that bad of a person… You will definitely be assigned to the program department.
You only have one more day to look at that terrifying one.
“Finally, finally!”
Crick raised his arms and cheered to himself.
Tomorrow is a promotion meal.
* * *
The morning of the promotion day.
The auditorium was already crowded with students, and it was quite interesting to stand quietly in their midst and pick up the conversation. Familiar names come from everywhere.
“Of course, the first place this time will be Lee Han, right?”
“Isn’t Solia there too?”
“Anyway, won’t both of you go to the magic department?”
“I heard that sophomores this year have a lot of magic and aspirations.”
“It was originally like that. You can play directly on the field, and you have the most power. It’s far more attractive than the Department of Natural Sciences, which is confined to a closet and studies only.”
“… what? You must fall into the sect.”
“Hey, there. Are you ignoring the code now? Are you going to go to hell?”
Lee Han and Solia.
Both are the main characters of Seulka Demi.
The protagonist, Lee Han, who can embody all the magic of the four elements, and Solia, the magician of light with the power of purification.
These are faces we haven’t met yet. I muttered quietly as I sat quietly in the corner.
Don’t just stick with the code.
Tae-soo Han’s inclination meant that if I was assigned to the program department, he would have me excommunicated.
A necromancer who awakens and controls the dead, a warlock who creates power by cutting the lives of the living.
Either way, it doesn’t fit the personality of the family Han Tae-soo is aiming for.
That was then.
“Hey, let’s start.”
“uh… uh!”
As Dean Ernest stepped onto the table, the students soon became quiet.
This is the beginning of a real promotion.
His determined and serious eyes were saying that.
“It’s nice to see 2nd graders.”
“Wow!”
Like the biggest event of Ardel Academy, the auditorium was decorated with splendor.
Dean Ernest’s boring conversation continued, but everyone pretended to listen and closed their eyes, and everyone’s attention was directed to the dice in the center.
magic dice.
The real thing is first.
Swallowing his saliva, he looked up at it with a mysterious aura.
I’ve heard that magic dice placed inside a large glass sphere spin around and take over majors one by one, but in reality, it’s much more… .
It was ordinary.
There was a crackling sound coming from all over the place.
“Is that it?”
“You say our lives are decided by just one little die?”
“But you are sure.”
“It is.”
A magic dice that detects innate tendencies and shapes the major that suits it.
In the original novel, Han Si-ha is assigned to the program that she longed for.
Whatever the social perception, he tried to trample the students who had been ignoring him through black magic.
Will the dice give an answer this time as a necromancy?
I can not know. It is said that Han Si-ha’s stats were adjusted according to my inclination… .
“I definitely look black.”
If I look back at the things I’ve done the past few days, I’m not a good person by anyone.
He held on to a commoner, threatened him, and quarreled with the imperial family. He was beaten by the main character, Adela, in the name of training.
Isn’t this going with the real code?
As I was muttering like that, I heard a familiar name.
“A student with 1st place in promotion grade, Lee Han student of magic and aspiring?”
“Yep!”
“Wow!”
“Ahhhh!”
Lee Han?
We finally see the protagonist of Sulka Demi here.
It’s a class, it’s a movement, and we’ve never met each other, so it’s a first for us to face each other like this. Naturally, his eyes turned towards him.
As soon as I saw that face, I couldn’t help but exclaim.
… That’s amazing.
No, no matter how much the main character buff is, this is too much.
Black hair and a gloomy face. It is a visual that seems to have come out of a comic strip alone.
“Ah, I tore the novel out.”
In any case, the unrealistic visuals seemed to have received the main character’s correction from anyone looking at it.
It’s sad, life.
If it was like this, wouldn’t it have been better to possess the main character?
Shiha Han, what is it? Han Shiha.
“Student Lee Han, you have been assigned to magic.”
“Wow!”
“Because I expected it.”
Well, from the point of view of the original, it was the expected result. He shook his head and waited for his next turn.
“Solia Arkenent student of magic and aspiring, please come forward.”
This time, Solia is in third place. Shouts erupt from all directions.
“… Wow.”
Lee Han was also surprised, but this place is almost like a different world.
Solia walked out in front of the auditorium with her silver hair fluttering and looked straight ahead.
Golden eyes twinkle like sunlight.
A face that looks nice, but feels strangely intimidating to get close to. It exudes an aristocratic atmosphere throughout its body.
The modifier of the wizard of light.
She was gifted with such outstanding talent that she never made it out of third place at the Ardel Academy full of geniuses.
A genius among geniuses who uses a wide range of attack magic as well as healing magic. She smiled leisurely and looked down at the dice.
Pinker-.
The results came quickly.
“Solia Arkenent student, assigned to magic.”
The following double-precision rank order,
“Seymour Parker student, assigned with the Code.”
Because it’s the beginning, the main characters are pouring out one after another.
A gigantic smirk. Seymour Parker, the only necromancer out of the top five, came down swinging his arms.
In the future, I was going to join hands with Han Si-ha and make it black, but… .
“Huh.”
Looking back, the boy’s smirking eyes met.
“I’ll be waiting for you, Han Shiha.”
go away.
If you’re going to the goal, go alone.
“Youn Ha-eul student, I was assigned to the theology department.”
After that, from the main character to the supporting role, some familiar names passed by.
Originally, this scene wouldn’t even have been mentioned for a moment, but I was hoping for a miracle.
It wasn’t an obvious development that didn’t even deserve a space, but a miracle that was enough to surprise everyone in the auditorium.
If you are not assigned to the Code Division… .
“No, you have to.”
Three years from now, the Warlocks of the Necromancer Division gathered together to revolt and take over the school.
Until then, even if he barely survived, he didn’t know if he would be dead if he got caught in it.
So, please.
“Student Han Si-ha?”
Finally my turn came.