Avoid Former Co-Workers

6 – 6. Victory Feast (1)

Lebrand Academy.

The name of a talent training center and a key institution in the Principality of Ardelion that teaches various magic and skills with the ideology of self-development and equality.

If there are outstanding students, there are students who fall behind that much, and a system called class division was established by setting multi-level goals to smoothly proceed with learning optimized for individual levels.

In other words, the class division standard was to make the students step on the stairs one after another by differentiating the education method according to a certain scale.

However, most of the lower classes and those who hide this fact know best that things are not going smoothly.

After the nobility settled down, absolute indicators related to magic power took precedence in the division criteria.

Why would they prefer long-distance shot magic or elemental magic and forcefully teach them?

This is because magic-related indicators rise the most and are directly related to firepower.

The gap of one class is divided according to the criterion of significant firepower, and this is the reason why elemental mages and ranged mages are deeply rooted.

However, something unexpected happened.

Class C’s Sylvia passed out and lost while dealing with Junon of E’s class.

It has completely overturned the relationship between a wizard whose main power is the wind element and a avant-garde who can’t even attack properly.

These concise sentences were too paradoxical for Senia.

The outcome of the battle between the two, which was secretly conducted near Megrez’s coffin, is literally paradoxical.

“How the heck?”

Snuggling her descending bangs behind her, Senia rolled her hair intently.

If Junon had been defeated and Sylvia’s victory had been confirmed, they might have shrugged it off, saying, “It’s a waste of time today.” But the result looks like this.

The gap between class C and class D is huge, so isn’t class E a person called the weakest vanguard?

I couldn’t help but wonder how he developed such power in such a short period of time. Sylvia has a metric comparable to her B class students, so she’s not an opponent you can win by chance.

For Senia, somehow she got into class C, and she had to learn alchemy and manufacturing, so this job became even more important.

“…I guess I’ll just have to ask.”

Pong-

A stone is thrown into the babbling stream, distorting the clean surface of the water.

Junon’s intention to avoid Michelle was good, but rather attracted Senia’s attention.

“Etch!!”

Coughing out of nowhere. Thinking that someone was gossiping, Junon wiped his mouth with his sleeve.

Then he shakes his head at the noise he hears right away.

“I was thinking of taking a break. What is this?”

It’s been a while since the battle with Sylvia, so her body is in a mess. After receiving medicine at the infirmary and returning to the dormitory, he was about to take a nap.

Today’s lecture ended a long time ago, and I couldn’t go to the gym to train, so rest is the best at times like this.

But how can I sleep when it’s so loud?

“Why is it near my dorm?”

As I pulled back the dormitory curtains with my hands, I saw students piled up on the bulletin board.

It was impossible to close my eyes at how loud the voices of the students were at the crowded bulletin board.

I didn’t sleep anyway, so I should think about how to deal with the aftermath.

Junon already knows what was announced on that bulletin board.

The news of the return of Princess Ophelia’s expedition and Arkab party after successfully subjugating the monsters in the Northeastern Sheet region.

The victory banquet was to be held soon.

In addition, you have to check if one of the incidents that exploded at the same time was properly blocked.

“The horse is a victory banquet, in fact, we have to prevent a riot from happening…”

For those who returned from participating in the expedition, a banquet is held every time to thank them for their hard work.

There is no doubt that they are the ones who have been selected and selected because they have achieved success by risking their lives against the beasts.

So students will want to approach them even more.

It was because it was an opportunity to learn their own special know-how, let alone training methods.

Anyone can learn, but not everyone satisfies the graduation requirements, and there is no guarantee that it will be a meaningful study.

Thus, the advice of people who can play active duty on the battlefield, not the teachings of professors, is infinitely precious to them. To the extent that students who are in the lower classes of D and E want to learn even more.

However, there is no such thing as an easy solution.

I want to enter the banquet hall because I want to receive instruction, but who can enter has been decided…

“Is there any way…?”

There is still time left, but we must find a way within that time.

Before the end-of-term assessments are delayed and the arrival of the Imperial delegation is postponed.

***

“Hey, Professor Beryl.”

“I told you that you shouldn’t call me that. You said there was a professor with the same name.”

“Oh right. I should call you Professor Jake.”

“Do you want to solve more problems than that?”

“Yes. I don’t know why this line is wrong here.”

This is a classroom in Class E. And the person who teaches them is Professor Jake.

Even if it is class E, there should be no distinction as it is a future member who will belong to a team in the future, hold a position, and play an appropriate role.

In fact, he knows that the other professors almost throw out the D and E class students.

That’s why he even divides his time to teach.

“You fell asleep again in class, right?”

“Yes… That’s right…”

“I still need to listen to the lecture.”

“But what can I do when Professor Kyoff just scares me or gets angry and doesn’t teach me properly. He doesn’t say anything about sleeping.”

In fact, he knows very well that other professors do not give very good lectures when they enter the classrooms of D and E class students.

That’s why he splits even more of his time to teach students.

He told his wife yesterday that he thought he would be able to talk on the phone today, but he couldn’t turn his head because the students were in this situation.

Professor Jake repeated the words ‘I’m sorry honey’ in his mind and continued his lecture.

“…Quickly ask. I’ll teach you what you didn’t understand.”

“Yes!”

How much more can you say that he is a person with such a good character that he pays attention to each and every student.

It went well beyond the basic lecture time of 55 minutes and lasted for about 3 hours, and all the students corrected their postures and began to concentrate.

Having Professor Jake in Class D or E has a completely different meaning from other professors.

After 3 hours and 30 minutes, Professor Jake said a word to everyone before ending his lecture.

“Don’t give up until the end and do as much as you can, okay?”

Students won’t understand even if they hear these words out of nowhere.

Except for one person.

He sent generous cheers to avoid being biased, but it’s a slightly different story for Junon.

Because I’m sure this is a story deeply related to the end-of-semester evaluation, one of the two tests that determine class placement.

“Okay, today’s lecture is over! Have a hearty dinner and rest.”

─Yes.

Professor Jake waited until the classroom was empty, watching the students in this class as if they were his own children whom he had lovingly raised.

Somehow, there was only one person left. It is today’s blackboard duty with unusual black hair and eyes.

“Junon.”

“Yes?”

“How did you get so hurt yesterday?”

Sometimes he is friendly, sometimes he jokes around and is a popular professor with students, but he had a completely different face now.

***

D and E class students often run into each other because the lectures often overlap.

There are quite a few lectures that combine the two classes, and in the case of practice, there are quite a lot of joint practices.

That’s why class D and class E aren’t closer than the other classes, and if you’re bored, the timetables are placed at similar times.

Senia went straight to the place where her E class lecture was held, where Junon would be present after listening to class D, and because Professor Jake lectured until a bit late, she was able to overhear the conversation without missing it.

“How did you get so hurt yesterday?”

…Was Professor Jake’s voice like that?

‘No. It can’t be.’

He is the kind of person who humorously approaches students and jokes with them, and often comforts them when their self-esteem is low or when they are having a hard time.

Academy students are more like children who change their emotions when they are bored, as can be seen just by looking at their age.

Among them, how much experience have you accumulated while directly teaching a class that is in a more sad and desperate situation?

It was common to say that they had never seen Professor Jake get angry.

But why does this voice that even feels heavy come out?

Senia knows. When a person gets angry all the way to the top, his expression becomes colder, and instead of speaking loudly, he expresses his emotions to the other person in a much quieter voice than usual.

Perhaps Professor Jake is mad at Junon now.

“Should I take that as a sign that I don’t want to talk about it?”

The question sounds like a scolding rather than a question.

It seems like they are even urging them to answer.

‘Junon is…’

After being silent for a while, he finally opened his mouth.

“I don’t know what you mean.”

“Really?”

A long silence lingered in the lecture hall, and even from the point of view of eavesdropping on the conversation in the hallway, tension flowed and my hands were sweating.

But he went back to being a true educator, giving his pupil heartfelt advice.

“…I told the other guys to just work hard, but rather, I want you to relax and not overdo it.”

“Don’t worry, it’s not too much.”

“I told you before that. I understand that you are protesting that it is unreasonable, but I think you’d better be patient with it a little longer. I can’t help but think that what I saw yesterday wasn’t unreasonable…”

I also saw Junon fighting Sylvia with all his might and then barely leading him with his tattered body.

It was clear that Professor Jake had hit the mark, but Junon seemed to be smirking at the answer as he withdrew his foot.

That was the end of the conversation between the two.

‘I know one thing for sure.’

For some reason, he did not want to reveal that Junon had won against Sylvia.

‘But isn’t it a bit strange?’

Junon was the most severely swept away by the academy’s waves of irrationality.

If you count the cases where you can’t stand that personality and swing your fist in the yard where you can’t hear good things just because you’re in the avant-garde, ten fingers won’t be enough.

It is said that it was that boy who showed indomitable will and resisted the physical and mental ridicule of ridicule and ridicule.

It’s none other than Silvia from Class C. Why are you hiding this when you’ve won against an opponent you’ve never beaten before?

It doesn’t matter anyway. Now, the fact that I caught the gundeokji is important.

‘If I do well, I might be able to dig something out with this?’

The corner of Senia’s mouth went up.