My Magic Tools Are Selling Too Well

18 – First Creator (4)

Peaceful Wednesday lunch.

I was on my way to lunch with Ruen and Schnika.

“Hey, Sacher senior! Please sign me just once!”

“Me too, me too, senior!”

And a bunch of students blocking us like lies.

I had never seen them, but they were students who had become my juniors before I knew it.

I couldn’t stop sighing at this dizzying sight.

The wave of [Safe Cage], which I first introduced to the world, showed an unbelievable ripple effect far beyond my expectations.

It was a somewhat familiar thing to pop up with genius undergraduates or something, but this time, the area spread throughout the empire, and even to the Alchemy Society across the continent.

Various alchemists came to see the magical tools, and newspapers from around the world came to cover them.

The fact that the creative magic tool was made by an undergraduate was drawing so many people’s attention.

The name of ‘Sachere’, who was doing alchemy, became more famous than the family name of ‘Philip’, a knight’s family.

Not to mention the academy.

As soon as the patent registration was completed, the article was published in the newspaper and became a celebrity at once.

Now, not only in the Faculty of Alchemy, but also in other faculties, there was no one who didn’t know my name when I told them.

I, my friends, and my juniors all felt bewildered at the unprecedented rise in awareness.

The person I was close with suddenly became a person who received the attention of the Empire and the Academy.

“… Do you have a pen?”

Crucially, the number of people who come to get autographs like this has increased tremendously.

At first, it was strange and fun, but now this is also hard work.

Whether it was to go out to eat or smoke, regardless of my circumstances, he came to visit me at random, so it was very inconvenient.

There was even a madman who woke up and asked for an autograph when he was sleeping in the classroom.

“Hi-Hi. Satchel can’t go with us anymore. I became so famous.”

After all the students got their autographs and went back, Shunika, who had been watching quietly from the side, smiled and said.

“Please don’t talk like that. I’m tired of being hurt by those people.”

“Why~ It’s fine though. When you become famous.”

“It’s all illusion. They won’t be interested in me anyway. My story comes out like a trend in the academy, so I guess that’s why they come to get my autograph.”

It was true.

When a current becomes abnormally overheated, people who are not interested in it often jump on the bandwagon.

I thought that my popularity was also built up like a sand castle.

No matter who made it, in the end, the result was not that innovative magic tool.

Of the people who came to get autographs earlier, surely less than half were alchemy students.

As much as that, the current trend had a feeling like a passing trend at one time.

If this heat goes beyond a year or two, it will become a tangible flow.

Like Ariel Tirfe, who received the continent’s attention in full swing, and is now recognized as a true genius.

“oh… Satchel looks different.”

“How do you usually look at me… ”

“Are you crazy for sleeping in class?”

“… … .”

“hehehe, sorry. Stop thinking about it.”

What do you do when you become popular?

My reputation with my friends is rock bottom.

Well, it was only because he showed me how to sleep every day.

I was catching my breath for a moment when I felt someone staring at me.

I turned my head to check.

It was Ruen who had been silently watching.

“… The famous Sacher.”

Please don’t do any weird transformations.

* * *

After a brief incident, we went to the academy cafeteria and started eating.

Today’s menu is shrimp fried rice and cream soup.

It was my fourth favorite combination on the academic menu.

The taste is delicious, but the value for money doesn’t make sense.

To go out and taste this concoction, you would have to pay at least twice as much.

There’s even a melon for dessert.

It was a meal close to perfection that I had no choice but to indulge in learning.

“ah. happy.”

“Satchel, I keep looking at you from all over the place.”

“Ignore it. You don’t even touch a dog when you eat.”

Like Schnika said, I could feel the gaze from all over.

Ever since I became famous, it was people’s interest that I felt every time I ate a meal.

At first, this was burdensome, but now I’m used to it.

I recently realized that it’s only hard for me if I don’t get used to it.

However, I felt the gaze from the people around me approaching as a shadow this time.

Are you trying to get an autograph at a restaurant?

I turned my head to check them out.

Fortunately, they were familiar and welcome faces.

“Hello, senior.”

“Seniors. Would it be all right if I sat with you? Because you became so famous, there are very few opportunities to meet you, Morphine, these days. Wouldn’t there be no time to talk to seniors if it wasn’t for a meal like this?”

I laughed out loud at the long sentence of morphine I hadn’t heard in a while.

With the consent of Ruen and Schnika, they were seated at the same table.

Come to think of it, it was the first time my friends and my juniors met.

I introduced each other lightly.

“Here are my friends. This is Schunika, a second year student at the Swordsmanship Faculty. This is Ruen, a sophomore in the Faculty of Magic.”

“Nice to meet you, juniors. I heard a lot about it, hee hee.”

“… … .”

Schunika smiled brightly and waved her hand, but Ruen was silent.

It was difficult for Delia to shy away from strangers, but there was no one who would come after Ruen.

Ruen was shy even to people she hadn’t seen for the first time, as well as people who had gotten used to it a few times.

I had never seen anyone in my life who was as quiet as Luen.

Even I, who have become quite close to them, find it rare to hear their voices.

“This is my juniors from the Faculty of Alchemy. The girl who looks like foxtail is Delia. That talkative kid is morphine.”

“It’s not a puppy pool… !!”

“Hello, seniors. Faculty of alchemy, first year morphine. My favorite food is shrimp fried rice, and the senior I respect the most is Sacher. So, it is truly an honor to be eating my favorite shrimp fried rice with Sacher, whom I respect. hahahaha. Sachere-senpai really helped a lot… ”

“… As you can see, there are a lot of words. If you listen to it, your ears will bleed, so be careful.”

Although they talk a lot, the atmosphere was not bad even though they were meeting for the first time thanks to the morphine that lightly eased the awkwardness.

We ate together amicably and talked about various things within the faculty.

My main concern was my story.

After making [Safe Cage], it became so famous that I couldn’t help but focus on the topic.

In the Faculty of Alchemy, things like how I’m being called a god, and when the next creative magic tool is planned, from my point of view, things that aren’t trivial went back and forth.

However, Schnika had a fun conversation with the juniors who were seeing what was so fun.

Schnika likes to hang out with people and enjoys telling various stories.

Because of her good personality, many people liked her and wanted to get to know her.

Especially because she has a pretty face and an explosive body… I heard that you received many confessions within the undergraduate level.

It was only a mystery that such an aggressive woman was close to me, a model of a reclusive loner, and Luen.

“Senior, don’t you do anything special during festivals?”

In the meantime, a story about the Academy Festival came up.

A week after the midterm exams, the festival begins soon.

It was a party for all students in the academy that only happens once a year.

Because it was held on such a large scale as the Imperial Academy, there were many large and small events, so there were many cases where imperial citizens and foreign visitors came to see it.

But when the story of the festival came up, I immediately felt a sigh come out.

“Don’t talk. My head hurts because of that, these days.”

“why?”

“My professor put me in the Coliseum event. I have no intention of leaving.”

There are various events at the Academy Festival, but no matter what anyone says, the flower of the festival is the ＜Academy Coliseum＞.

Academy Coliseum.

It was a kind of armed competition in which the winner was selected through a duel, regardless of faculty.

Any undergraduate student of the academy, regardless of grade, could participate, and the winner was given a huge prize money and prizes.

The Colosseum was the most popular event among the Academy’s festivals.

There was a reason why the prize money and prizes were so large, but the purpose of the contest itself was the main reason for its popularity.

For the spectators, it was a competition that stimulated the basic human psychology of ‘Who is the strongest?’, and for the participants, it was a stage where they could check how good their skills were.

In addition, since the scale was so large, the Imperial Knights, the Magic Society, or the adventurer’s guild, which made money by forming groups, used to keep an eye on this tournament to recruit new warriors.

The Academy Colosseum was the most credible competition where aspiring warriors could check their skills before graduating.

For this reason, not a few undergraduate students participated in the Colosseum as a publicity stage to promote themselves.

I got to go to such a weighty competition.

Involuntarily, not voluntarily.

‘Have you not heard? I applied on the recommendation of a professor. It’s also not a good idea to confine a faculty genius to research only. Go and cool your head.’

Professor Meline’s voice echoed in my head like an echo.

sh*t. Wherever you look at this, it cools your head.

This is overkill, overkill.