chapter 32
32 – Practical lessons (4)
By the time Hans and Alt reached the halfway point and passed in front of me.
I spoke to him who was busy talking to Alt.
“Meet Gun Hans in a place like this.”
“Ah, Altane?! you… !”
As soon as he saw me, Hans frowned and reacted violently.
It must have been pretty bad to get hit on the head with a wad of paper.
But did you throw it first?
He only grinned to see if he knew this, but didn’t show any movement.
“Let’s go, Alt. There is no need to waste time here.”
“Seeing you hurry, you must be confident.”
“under! Much more than you.”
“Why don’t we at least make eye contact and talk?”
The look on Hans’ face as he spoke with confidence was very reminiscent.
Except for the first time I saw him, he was still glancing toward the forest and not making eye contact with me.
If my predictions are correct, sure… .
“I don’t know if you’re not interested in grades, but I will definitely find the badge. Find… This proves how good I am and I will be the chief.”
Hans, who spoke resolutely, looked at Elaine behind me and continued.
“If you, too, have a conscience, why don’t you pretend to be looking for it? I will welcome you with open arms if you are expelled, but I cannot forgive an innocent student being expelled because of you.”
“Who said you would be expelled? I am waiting.”
“… What a fool. If you wait, you will eventually be expelled. Did you forget the contents of the class already?”
“I remember it well. Unlike you, your head is running well.”
“This bastard… .”
It really comes down to provocation.
Meanwhile, I decided to try Hans.
“Come to think of it, you just said you were confident, but did you have anything prepared?”
“… It has nothing to do with you.”
“Is it because you’re afraid that if I find out, you’ll be taken away?”
“under! It sounds like nothing.”
Finding a badge in that forest without the help of magic is never easy.
Unless a special method was used, it was a task that would take several hours.
Yes, unless you use a special method.
I said to Alt, who was restless next to Hans.
Alt’s gaze wavered as he put his hands together and seemed to be hiding something.
“Is this the first time since the entrance ceremony?”
“… .”
“I think I was good at talking at the time, but strangely, I didn’t say anything.”
“Don’t tell me Alt. don’t let it go There is no reason to mix things up with that guy.”
After that, Hans led Alt into the forest.
‘As expected, that guy… .’
It was a long story, but the person who found the badge was, of course, Hans and Alt.
In the original work, in the first practical class, a student other than Siegfried, the main character, finds a badge.
Later, when cheating is revealed, there is a part where the class itself becomes non-existent.
There, the silhouettes of the students appear as illustrations, but no matter how you look at them, they are the same as Hans and Alt.
I was worried because there were so many similar body types, but I was convinced when I saw Hans’s attitude that kept looking at the forest just before, and Alt’s awkward behavior.
I thought about what was to come as I watched Hans’s back as he walked away.
What I was trying to do was simple.
Waiting for Hans and Alt to come out, who found the badge through cheating, and take it as an excuse.
It remains to be seen whether that proud Hans will hold on to the end, but the key is Alt, who was next to him.
If you shoot me just a little bit, I’ll get angry and spit something out.
If that doesn’t work, just find the evidence. If you used magic, Bella would find it. If you used tools, you’d throw it in the forest or keep it in your arms.
If that’s not the case… .
‘Quickly find and come out.’
Unfortunately, there was no rule against taking the badge, so we had to take it by force.
*
Deep in a forest with thick, tall trees.
There was a man with well-swept brown hair and a dark-haired man walking beside him, looking around.
Hans and Alt.
“Ha, Hans. Where are you going?”
“Be patient. You have to go a little deeper to use it.”
Alt chased after Hans, who was out of his usual way and making his way through the bush.
As they sighed and proceeded, a small clearing appeared in front of them.
Where there was a tree with only a stump in the center, Hans stopped and said to Alt.
“This should be enough. Try Alt.”
At Hans’ words, Alt took out the tool from his chest.
It was a pendant with a red jewel embedded in a triangle.
Alt asked Hans in a nervous voice.
“Hans, does this really work? If you get caught… .”
“I bought it at a magic tool shop that is said to be the best in the capital. The effect is certain. And the instructors didn’t follow.”
Hans bought a pendant from a magic tool shop the day before class.
Before he and other students entered the school, in other words, based on what Hans’ former jockey students had told him, he was preparing for a ‘badge search’.
Originally, the instructors would follow the field, but in this class, the instructors did not follow.
Haggis, his closest aristocrat and academy senior, recommended a metal detecting tool to Hans to easily find the iron badge.
He said there was no reason to be found out because he was using tools, not magic.
Using a tool was also an offense, but at this point when the instructors weren’t on the scene, it didn’t matter to Hans.
Upon hearing this, Alt asked Hans.
“But how do you get out if you find it?”
“They say pendants are attracted to metal. Grab it and follow it. Since this is a forest anyway, the only metal is probably that badge.”
“Oh oh… Great Hans!”
When mana was blown into the jewels in the pendant, the jewels started to light red and at the same time began to be dragged somewhere.
The closer you get to the metal that is supposed to be the badge, the faster the jewel lights up.
By the time we reach the place where the giant tree has fallen in half,
They could find a lion-shaped badge on the floor.
“Tea, I found it!”
“Oh oh!”
Excited Hans shouted while holding the badge in both hands.
“hahahaha… found… finally! You’ll find out I’m better than those damn bastards!”
According to Haggis, there is only one badge here.
If he was right, the evaluation of Hans who found this would surely go up.
He didn’t hide the laughter that leaked out.
*
“Get up soon. Elaine.”
“… uh.”
“under.”
“Huh?!”
When I pinched Elaine’s side, she jumped up with a struggle.
How comfortably I slept, my mouth was full of saliva marks.
“Hey, this is… .”
“How long have you been sleeping?”
“Count… ?”
Elaine tilted her head.
At this, her white hair falls down.
After staring at me for a long time, Elaine’s eyes widened.
“Ah, hands-on!”
“You realize it very quickly.”
“Oh no! I knew… yeah.”
Elaine’s speechless appearance was not like that at all.
Well, it’s time to grow up, so I understand.
“Did you wait for me to wake up?”
“As I said before coming, we do not go into the forest. In addition to waiting for him to come out, you waited too.”
“yes… .”
As I left the academy, I told Elaine.
There are still people looking for badges anyway, so there’s no need to go into the woods and suffer.
They bring it on their own, but it’s enough just to receive it.
Elaine showed a reluctance, but she didn’t refuse because if she got points here, she would get a good evaluation later.
From Elaine’s point of view, getting out of Class F even for a moment would be an urgent priority.
And since Hans acquired the badge through an illegal expedient, he took it away to punish him.
Wouldn’t it be better to punish the offender and take the reward than to win first place?
Elaine finally agreed, as if she couldn’t find anything unusual about it.
“Yeah, but is it really true… .”
“If not, why won’t the guys who entered before come out? There are not many badges. only one. At best, within one finger.”
The unconditional badge is one.
This is a fact only I know.
As if to prove this, not a single person came out of the people who entered the forest even after a considerable amount of time had passed.
This means that there is only one badge, just like the original.
Bella and Aaron might want to see the students’ ability to improvise through this class.
It’s because I know the contents of the game, but to others, the word expulsion must have been stimulating.
From Elaine’s point of view, it’s a baby that can’t be trusted easily.
“Whoah… .”
Elaine stretched out with a tearing yawn.
He looked really carefree.
It’s not even a flat stone, but there seems to be no uncomfortable place even though I’ve been stretching for a long time on a rock with angles here and there.
It looks like a cat that just woke up from rubbing its eyes.
-Bussleuk
I looked at Elaine for a while and then turned my head at the sound I heard.
“hehehe… hehehe… It’s all here… .”
“Whoa… This is Alt.”
The ones I had been waiting for were the ones I had been waiting for.
I slowly got up and approached them who were sitting down and breathing.