“How about your intelligence rank? I know you measured it recently.”
After finishing the meal in a strangely awkward atmosphere, Proud asked.
“… … did took the exam I made a little mistake and ended up staying at a B+. It’s a shame.”
I thought about bluffing, but just said it honestly.
Even if I knew the original work well, I lacked common sense compared to people in this real world. It wasn’t just me, but Mikhail himself was like that, so there was a part that couldn’t be helped.
“I’m worried that I might be laughed at for having bad hair.”
“You can’t be perfect in every way. On the contrary, you will feel that you have humanity. I am enough for the role of being laughed at.”
Katyusha shook her head and said. It was comfort mixed with a bit of self-help.
For reference, Katyusha’s rank ends at B+ for Power. Originally, he had no magic power, and his intellect could not be measured because he did not know the letters.
“You don’t know the letters, but I think it’s pretty good if it’s a brain.”
There was no choice because there was a tendency to deliberately not teach the letters to attendants.
I’m saying I’ll take this opportunity to learn, but it’s probably not going to be easy. I just hope that no one bothers me so much that I have to step in.
“By the way, speaking of intelligence, is there no way to raise it other than testing?”
“Intelligence is also possible to challenge the top players like other ranks, but the win rate is not good because of the large age gap in study. It’s a tricky part to figure out how to challenge, so it’s rarely done.”
“is it. If possible, I want to make my intellect an S rank as well.”
Intellect seems to have no choice but to be honest. got annoying I even wondered if it would be bad to give up the SSS rank and be satisfied with the SS rank.
“… … wait for a sec.”
While thinking about intelligence, a forgotten setting came to mind.
“Do you know a student named Bernadette?”
“I know. I noticed it on the freshman roster.”
A one-line setting that was written in the character introduction of the published version that came out while passing by.
“Hey, what’s your intelligence rank?”
“I remember it as an A rank.”
Surprisingly, Ber’s intelligence was that he was an A-rank even as a freshman.
“However, I was not selected as a representative because the other divisions were devastating.”
Though it was added that it didn’t stand out because both Might and Magic were D ranks.
“Right. I mean… … . Whoops.”
If you use it well, you might be able to eat it raw.
Afterwards, after talking about this and that, the lunch break was over, and I left the student council room and watched the magical class held outdoors from a distance.
Even if it was far away, it wasn’t on the roof like before. It was on the nearby lawn where the students taking classes could also see this side.
“Everyone stay calm! If you get nervous and lose the balance of your output, you will get hurt!”
Thanks to that, everyone was so nervous that the teacher of the magic class had to shout all the time. Of course, the teacher was nervous as well, and he occasionally glanced at this side of the side of his eyes several times as if he was nervous.
“It is important to create a routine that uses magic. Don’t try to do anything great. First of all, focus on producing stable output!”
According to the teacher’s words, the students focused on creating routines such as reciting spells or performing specific movements.
It was not necessary for me, who had excellent magical aptitude, but for those who were not so good at it, it was convenient to create a routine to control magic, such as casting a spell or extending one’s hand in a specific posture.
“Wind Spirit, I command you! Answer my answer!”
“Kuh… … The power is arbitrary, aaa!!”
“A sunny day, a muddy night. The devil cannot escape my sight!”
In other words, those embarrassing lines that I don’t understand are actually just routines that have no effect. Everyone is shouting out what they think is cool, but looking back a few years later, it is already clear that they would be ashamed to death.
Anyway, by the time everyone was making embarrassing lines or poses and desperately wringing out their mana,
“… … .”
Eugene was sitting far away and observing.
Considered to have no magical powers because he was a commoner, he was virtually absent from class with other commoners under the pretext of field trips.
“You’re so good at swordsmanship, but you haven’t inherited your mana, it’s like Mustafa.”
“Perhaps it’s just that you’re not aware of it.”
“yes?”
Leaving the puzzled Katyusha behind, I strode toward Eugene. A group of commoners who had been absent-mindedly touring noticed me approaching and scattered in confusion. I feel like a beast of some sort.
“hey.”
However, Eugene didn’t even move until I called.
“… … ?”
Even when I called, they just looked up at me with puzzled eyes.
“Aren’t you participating?”
“As you can see, I am a commoner.”
Eugene answered calmly. Like Bernadette I first met, I don’t know if he didn’t know that I was the crown prince, or if he knew but came out like this. Judging from her recent crooked personality, it’s probably the latter.
“I don’t know if there is. How about giving it a try?”
“Are you kidding me?”
As if Eugene was displeased, he got up from his seat and faced me. As for height, I was very slightly taller.
The commoners around him began to mutter, “What is he doing? Someone stop him.” The confusion of the commoners soon became contagious to the nobles who were training magic nearby, and everyone’s eyes gathered.
“… … Where have you met?”
Eugene asked, narrowing his eyes.
“Okay. Since I’m the crown prince, I’m sure you’ve seen it somewhere.”
There I answered lightly. Eugene was momentarily shaken at the word crown prince, but did not take any special action.
“Back on topic, why don’t you give it a try? You never know what might come out.”
“You can’t come out.”
“So you’re going to reject me?”
“… … Bad taste.”
Eugene reluctantly got up from his seat. And stretched out his hand forward.
“Focus. Try to feel the blood flowing through your body. It would be nice to write a routine.”
I kindly gave advice, but Eugene wasn’t particularly attentive.
To anyone’s eyes, this would only be seen as the crown prince teasing the commoners, and it was only natural that he would consider it that way.
But the result will never be taken for granted.
“… … .”
Eugene frowned, didn’t even say a routine or made any movements, and silently glared at the front——.
“… … ?!”
In an instant, it spewed out a spray of water as if it exploded from its hand.
All the people who had only glanced at the strong explosion sounded like “Kwaaang,” were startled and looked this way.
“What, what?! I just… … ?!”
Yujin stumbled at the recoil of the spray she spewed out, and managed to straighten her posture. And as if he couldn’t believe what he had done, he grabbed his right arm and was shocked.
The arm that sent out mana as if it were exploding for the first time could not control the overflowing mana, and cold water drops continued to flow down.
“Ohh. It really happened. Is that the magic of water?”
“No, the magic of water… … ?”
“It’s like using it without a routine. Your success is as good as it gets, Eugene.”
Confused, I put my hand on Eugene’s shoulder, who couldn’t control his magical power. Yujin looked at me with a surprised face and gradually calmed down and calmed down the runaway mana.
“… … A commoner used magic, and water magic at that?”
“That guy, is he a commoner? Rather, are you acquainted with the crown prince?”
“In the first place, the swordsmanship is also… … how… … .”
Both commoners and nobles around them looked at Eugene in unison, unable to hold back their astonishment. Even for a moment, it attracted more attention than me as the crown prince.
“… … .”
“You don’t look very happy. Has your birth date been decided?”
I asked teasingly at Eugene, who looked confused.
“career… … .”
Yujin looked at me and muttered. Even if he had calmed down, he seemed a bit distraught, as if the aftermath of the magic he had used for the first time remained.
“Aren’t you very interested in getting ahead?”
Eugene in the original work had a strong desire to succeed. He had the will to go up to a high place and change Sangvis. When he realized that he had magical powers, he was overjoyed.
“I do not know.”
But now, in reality, he reacted in the opposite way. He just clenched his arms, frowning as if he couldn’t understand what had happened to his body.
“… … Personally, I am very interested in you.”
What happened to Eugene during the period I could not mark, from the Saratov rebellion to the entrance to the knight academy?
“You can come to me if you have any concerns.”
Beyond suspicion and interest, it was to the point of genuine concern.
“… … okay. thanks.”
Eugene looked at me and replied.
It wasn’t enough that he was half-talking until the end, and there was subtle suspicion and hostility in his gaze.
‘I don’t think he’ll become an ally easily.’
At the very least, I thought it would be nice to be the enemy of the enemy.
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“Katyusa, calm down.”
And he calmed down by patting Katyusha on the shoulder, who was holding her posture with the momentum to cut out Eugene’s stomach with her hand, saying that she was stern right now.
After work, a special room in the dormitory.
“It’s surprising that Eugene has awakened his magical powers.”
Mustafa, the teacher, must have already known the information, but Mustafa was very surprised by my words.
“It is certainly surprising that commoners have awakened their magical powers. Even if there are times when nobles cannot awaken their magical powers, there is no precedent for such cases.”
I said in an explanatory tone.
“Well, actually, it’s just that I’m not of commoner blood.”
And he denied that explanation.
“Did you say you were the son of Johannes? I remember.”
Katyusha added to my words.
In the end, I remember that the main character was also a bloodline. Was there a character who pointed out that in the work?
“… … I didn’t hear anything, but was it?”
“Well, it’s not that important. You’ve been busy lately, so I couldn’t tell you.”
Mustafa looked a little disappointed.
“How is your life as a teacher? Are you having fun?”
Come to think of it, I couldn’t talk much with Mustafa recently because I was so busy.
“I don’t know if it’s interesting or not, but I don’t hate it.”
“Isn’t anyone discriminating against Amerians?”
“Some of the teachers have it, but most of the students do.”
“I’m glad it seems to be working out.”
I was relieved. In the original work, there was an episode where he was in a very rough situation and then with the help of Eugene and his friends, he punished the bad students and teachers, but it was usually unnecessary in front of the power of the crown prince. I don’t even feel a little futile, though.
“So, do you have any interesting news, Mustafa?”
I asked Mustafa. There was news that I was expecting to come out around this time.
“… … A mission will be given sooner or later.”
Mustafa thought for a moment and said.
Missions are a kind of quest that is sometimes given at the knight academy, ranging from chores such as collecting herbs and hunting to subjugation of something large.
“I haven’t heard the details either, but one thing is for sure.”
A reasonable reward is given to those who complete the mission, but of course, the higher the reward, the more dangerous and unpredictable it is. And the mission given at this point in the original work is,
“The targets of this mission are humans.”
It was frighteningly high-paying, but also dangerous.
After a while, a mission recruitment was posted on the bulletin board in front of the dormitory.
It was ‘subjugation of the remnants of the Saratov rebels’.