chapter 61
61. Grade Test (12)
“That’s ridiculous!”
Professor Bridget’s eyes opened wide as if they were going to pop out.
“A guy without a family succeeded in defeating…?! Oh, and in 29 seconds? That’s impossible! He must have done something!”
Professor Bridget, as the professor of the class that Aria and Cain belong to, naturally thought she would take first place in overall performance.
However, he couldn’t believe that a commoner with an unheard of name had come out and taken first place.
“Come on! To the infirmary!”
At that moment, Iris runs away, carrying Cyan like a bundle of luggage.
Then Aria finally flinched and thought to herself.
‘I feel like if I miss something now, I’ll never be able to see it again until I graduate!’
Aria spoke urgently to Cain, who was next to her.
“Cain! I have something urgent to do, so I’ll go first. Go meet up with Lucy and Ellis!”
“Huh…? Urgent? Oh! Ah, Aria! Wait a minute!”
As Aria goes out to chase after Professor Iris, Cain is left alone.
When he looked around, the situation was chaotic.
“There may be remnants of the villains remaining! We must stop the test and evacuate the students immediately!”
“The Spirit Ministry will release the spirits and search!”
“Kids! Get back to the classroom! It’s dangerous to stay here!”
Cain had no choice but to evacuate with a bewildered expression and follow the professors’ instructions.
***
“Hey, Iris! I’m fine! Please put me down!”
“No! There may be something else wrong, so we need to check quickly!”
Cian was hanging from Iris’ shoulder like a load, experiencing her vision changing rapidly.
The form was so embarrassing. When he felt the students passing by glancing at him, Si-an covered his face with his hand.
‘Aren’t you being too overprotective? The dantian reflux caused by black magic has already been alleviated with the magic stone sword…!’
Iris’s pace was so fast that it seemed like she would only have to run a few more minutes to reach the medical building.
But then it happened.
‘…! What! Why am I following you?!’
Cyan, who was hanging behind, saw someone chasing him from afar.
Aria Sylvester. One of the original heroines who would later become a sword master.
She was running at a crazy speed, looking straight at Cyan herself.
‘I don’t know what happened, but it’s going to be a headache if I get involved with them anymore! This Black Magic Cult incident also happened because it was related to Rosaria, one of Cain’s heroines!’
Cyan hurriedly tapped Iris on the shoulder while hanging on and said.
“Iris! Please speed up!”
“Is something wrong?!”
“Oh, that’s right! Knock knock knock! My body feels a little strange!”
“Okay…! I understand! Let’s speed things up!”
Iris strengthened her body with magical power.
Then, Si-an could feel a speed that was faster than he had ever experienced before.
It felt like I was passing through a wall of air.
‘Okay…! If this continues, I’ll dodge you!’
From a distance, I could see Aria’s puzzled expression.
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Only after receiving basic healing from the priest in the infirmary and hearing that there was nothing wrong was Cian able to leave Iris.
Iris left her post to help the Academy prepare for the invasion of the Black Magic Cult.
Since Si-an was left alone in the infirmary, he immediately left the medical building.
“I’m going crazy… .”
I expected it.
Now that we’ve rescued Rosaria, it’s only natural that we’ll be targeted by the Black Magic Cult.
But Shian could not have imagined that he would be rushed in on the day of the second exam when all the students and professors would be gathered.
‘Wasn’t saving the heroine something that Cain should have done? Damn it.’
Things seemed to have gone wrong.
Is it because of the variable called himself that Cain and Rosaria have not gotten involved until now?
It was the same in the anthill.
Could it be that that was the epic location where Hedy awakened?
Si-an had a headache because he kept getting involved with the heroines even though he tried not to get involved.
‘Why on earth…?’
This time I was trying to return to the dorm without being noticed.
“… Wait a minute, over there.”
An unfamiliar voice called out to Xi’an.
For a moment, a chill ran down Xi’an’s spine.
A voice that is unfamiliar, but I have heard it before.
Sian slowly turned his head in the direction where the voice came from. Then there was…
“I want to talk to you for a moment. Could you stop running away?”
“… … .”
Aria Sylvester, who had been waiting near the medical building, was approaching Sian with her arm linked.
*
Cain headed alone to the swordsmanship club’s lecture hall building.
As I walked, the image of Aria running ahead came to mind.
‘Cain! I have something urgent to do, so I’ll go first. Go meet Lucy and Ellis!’
I could roughly guess where he went.
You must have followed that guy.
Even during the tournament, he released his aura and rescued the princess.
The man who set an absurd record by defeating Ignis in just 29 seconds in this second test.
I knew Aria was obsessed with him.
As I walked, I couldn’t help but feel a strange feeling.
“…Cain!”
As they approached the Sword Master’s Lecture Hall building, Ellis from the Magic Department, who had been waiting for them, approached Cain, waving her hand.
“The second test was amazing! It was around the same time as Aria… You’ve grown so much! If this continues, I think you might actually be able to achieve Cain’s wish of becoming a warrior!”
“… … .”
Cain wondered if he could really become a warrior.
I haven’t even caught up with Aria yet, and there’s another wall to overcome called Cyan.
How can I beat them and become a warrior?
Even if he were a god, he would probably prioritize them.
“Ellis. More importantly, we’re currently being attacked by a strange man. Is it okay for you to wander around like this?”
“oh….”
“Lucy? Did she go first?”
“Lucy said something had come up that she was worried about, so she went first.”
“Okay. Let’s go to the Ministry of Magic dormitory. It might be dangerous, so I’ll take you there.”
“Yes…! Thank you!”
Cain walked closely next to Ellis, making sure not to leave the lecture hall building.
The Ministry of Magic building and the Sword and Magic building are close together.
It should take less than 5 minutes to walk.
-Thump thump.
The other students had already evacuated, so only the two people’s footsteps could be heard.
Ellis noticed that Cain was quieter than usual.
It was at this moment that Ellis, who was about to ask about the strange man, was cautiously opening her mouth.
“I….”
“Fuck! Why are you alive when you’re attacked by a weirdo? Why don’t you just die?!”
Ellis’s words were interrupted by a sudden loud noise.
A sound coming from a corner of a building’s blind spot.
Judging by the pungent smell of macho and the sound of many voices, it seemed like a group of thugs.
Cain said, pushing Ellis’s back with one hand.
“Ellis. Let’s just go. There’s no benefit to getting involved in this… .”
“Who would have known that he would be the scoundrel prince of our principality!”
At that moment, Cain’s feet stood tall.
“Lord Cain…?”
“… … .”
Cain couldn’t move.
I just stopped walking and quietly eavesdropped on the sounds coming from inside the blind spot of the building.
“It’s clear that you were planning to screw me over. If that’s not the case, how could you go around hiding your family name?”
“Darius… Did the notice of your demotion reach your family?”
“He hasn’t arrived yet. But judging by that scoundrel’s personality, he’ll probably not send it for a long time and send it when I feel relieved and think everything is fine! With that vicious personality, he’d definitely do that!”
The scoundrel prince.
It was a story that Cain hadn’t heard in a long time.
I hadn’t seen him in a while at the academy, so I thought he had either dropped out or was just hanging out, truant, but I never thought I’d hear his story here.
“But I still can’t believe it… That guy who looked like a yam that got attacked during the second test is actually Prince Xi’an of the Duchy of Brace? Are you lying?”
“No, he definitely had a family nameplate. It was definitely the nameplate of the Duchy of Brace. There must be only one person who has it! What kind of magic did he use to lose so much weight that he’s unrecognizable!”
At that moment, Zeke flinched slightly.
“The reason I was attempted to assassinate you during the second test was because you were harassing an innocent noble like me and you were resented… Huh?”
“What? What are you?”
Cain was unknowingly approaching a group of thugs.
Then the group of thugs stop smoking and look at Cain.
Cain, with complicated feelings, asked the group of thugs.
“Guys. What you just said… is it true?”
***
“I want to talk to you for a moment. Could you stop running away?”
“Run away? I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
I tried to remain calm and spoke to Aria.
I knew this would happen.
I thought I had shaken off Iris’s full speed, but I was wrong.
In the first place, where would an injured person go? Since they’re an academy student, it would probably be the infirmary.
But I still expected and waited for that… I got goosebumps thinking that maybe I was being too obsessed.
“Don’t lie. On the first day of school, at the training grounds, wasn’t it the case that you would run away whenever you ran into me? I don’t understand why you would run away after saving me.”
“… … .”
My feelings were complicated.