How to Survive at the Academy chapter 6

6 days before school starts (2)

The royal residence of the Sylvania Academy was located on the western side of Aken Island, especially on the cliff line closest to the coast.

It was also quite far from the southwest living wing, which had many amenities and small commercial facilities.

Although they receive equal treatment in their studies, the imperial family cannot receive the same treatment in their daily life or residence.

Therefore, this imperial residence was built exclusively for the Phenian princess.

The splendid mansion is also quite spacious. Normal students were not even allowed to enter the garden, so there was no need to explain in words how special they were being treated.

“It’s very different from living in the professor building.”

the time the sun goes down. Looking out the window, you can see the vast ocean.

The gentle sound of the waves came over the window sill and filled the private room of the princess, who had more than a rave reviews, before disappearing.

Staring at the sky beyond the red-tinted lattice, Princess Penia was sitting at her desk. The personal study desk filled with high-quality wood and luxurious patterns was larger than Principal Obell’s office desk.

It was the life of the royal family that had to be luxurious no matter what.

Being an equal student in the faculty building is a completely different life.

Princess Fenia brushed her platinum-colored hair that had settled down neatly and lowered it in front of her left shoulder. And while I was trying to open a book on magical history and elemental science, I put down my pen.

“…”

Princess Fenia fell into deep thought.

The golden marble that Lucy Meryl took out during the presentation of the placement test. It was definitely the golden orb that Princess Fenia found in Merylda’s Guardian Tree.

At that point, Princess Penia realized.

The golden orb was unique in appearance, and there was nothing unusual about it. The magical power it contained was so weak that it was barely felt.

As a result, Princess Penia’s judgment was correct.

The marble was only unique in its appearance, and it was just a marble that contained only weak magical power.

However, the fact that it contains ‘weak magic’ itself was the key.

– ‘You did a great job, Lucy.’

Archmage Glockt defined… the three essential qualities of an archmage who seeks the truth.

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Magic Sensitivity

fast and accurate judgment

Willingness to explore.

Students who have judged that it is a first-come-first-served test will be deducted points for ‘Quick and Accurate Judgment’.

Students who return without trying to find out the intention of the exam will be deducted points from the ‘willingness to explore’ item.

And the ‘Magic Sensitivity’ item that determines whether the senior is… was judged by the amount of mana inherent in the marble itself.

The smaller the amount of mana inherent in the marble itself, the more difficult it is to detect.

Come to think of it now, the mana contained in each of the magic marbles on the ground was different. The difference was so small that it was hard to even realize it if you didn’t concentrate properly.

The more he found a marble with less mana, the more points were added to the ‘Magic Sensitivity’ item.

And then, Lucy Meryl, who woke up from a nap, casually found the golden marble.

– ‘The Guardian Tree of Merylda is the oldest tree in the Northern Forest. It is a tree protected by the high wind spirit Merylda, so it is always surrounded by abundant magical power.’

Professor Glast pushed his distinctive skull-like face to the front of the podium and spoke.

– ‘At the same time, I have placed a magic ball infused with only the negligible amount of magic in the gaping hole of magical power. Even the location is a rocky island in the middle of the lake, so it’s a location that can’t be discovered unless you’re a student who has sensed that magical power.’

There is no end to the delicacy of magic response.

Just as the scent of a person is no longer indistinguishable when it is mixed and mixed in a crowd, it is difficult to notice when its own magical power is also mixed and buried.

Lucy Meryl is a human born with such a sense of magic response to the limit.

Not only that, he was asleep and drowsy as if he didn’t know that, but he was actually reading Professor Glast’s intentions.

The proof is that he returned to the gallows building with only one golden bead, no more, no less.

Lucy Meryl was already playing at the top of this test’s head.

‘Yeah, that makes sense…’

Princess Fenia had never heard of the name Lucy Meryl for the first time. However, he had already gained some popularity among his classmates.

‘Sloth Lucy’

As you walk around the campus, you will often see them crouching down on benches, tree stumps, or grass, taking a nap or sleeping.

I do not know the background of his growth, but rumors are that he is a genius among geniuses who have already been born with a sense of magic to the limit.

It was a truly enviable talent, but it is understandable that the inherent ability of a person is inherently unfair.

But the part I still don’t understand.

There was another person who knew the whereabouts of the marble.

– ‘That tree is Merylda’s guardian tree. If you look at the knot hole of the tree, you will have a good harvest.’

Ed Roth Taylor.

Princess Penia was deeply troubled.

It is said that Ed Roth-Taylor knew the location of the golden marble in the first place. It cannot be explained by saying that it was discovered by chance.

It is a marble with a really weak level of magic hidden in the crevice of the powerful magic emanating from Merylda’s guardian tree.

The location is right in the center of the rocky island of the lake. It is by no means a place you would find by chance while walking.

There is only one conclusion drawn. He was born with a sensitivity similar to that of Lucy Meryl.

– ‘Let go of this! Don’t you know who I am?! Ed Roth Taylor, the second son of the Roth Taylor family! Get your dirty hands away, pigs! Where are you touching your body!’

– ‘Do you think I’m going to do something like that to insult a dirty failing student or something? let this go! What are the dirty and ignorant commoners babbling about what they know!’

– ‘Yes? Woah, Princess? Penny, the princess of charity? I’m sorry, I don’t know!’

– ‘sorry! Princess! I’m going to bang my head like this! please! Have mercy just once!’

– ‘Princess! Defending the likes of Budge Taylor leaves only a blemish on that noble and exalted name. Please condemn him!’

“…it can’t be.”

Princess Penia shook her head.

Princess Fenia is a person who has lived by estimating humans since she was young.

The ugliness that Ed Roth-Taylor showed in the entrance exam was the ugliness of a cornered man by anyone looking at it.

Ed Roth-Taylor was told that there was nothing special about his magical abilities. Rather, I wondered how he could be so arrogant on a subject where his grades weren’t so good. Perhaps it’s because of the Roth Taylor family’s unique indoctrination ideology education.

Above all, if he had that level of talent, Professor Glast couldn’t have left him alone.

He is the one who discovers and makes even the most hidden talents like a ghost. A mad obsession with talent. That was Professor Glast’s identity.

There was no way such a person would not have noticed such a talent even after seeing it.

However, the pangs that remained in the corner of the heart of Princess Fenia did not disappear.

‘Is it really the same person…?’

I don’t feel like something is being resolved and understood. More than anything else, Ed Roth-Taylor’s serene look he met in the woods.

She trembles when she makes eye contact with Princess Fenia, does not hide her awe for power, and becomes weak in front of the infinitely powerful.

It didn’t feel like that at all. At first I thought it was bluff, but soon I noticed actions that made me stop thinking.

Ed Roth Taylor seemed more afraid of the bonfire being put out than of buying a hatred for the Princess Fenia in front of him.

While sitting in front of the bonfire and chatting while collecting firewood at poker, Ed Roth-Taylor never looked at the princess.

nausea.

The sense of incongruity that it may not be the same person really.

However, in appearance and behavior, the arrogant aristocrat Ed Roth-Taylor, whom he had seen during the entrance exam, was right.

‘Is there an opportunity to change something?’

Perhaps the biggest trigger for this was being excommunicated.

But when you think about it in a common way of thinking, it’s very strange.

Princess Fenia is the number one credit for excommunicating Ed Roth Taylor.

There should have been a response such as resentment, begging for forgiveness, or something like that. If it had been that way, Princess Penia would not have felt a strange sense of incongruity.

However, the eyes of Ed Roth-Taylor, who had become a completely different person, were not filled with such unclean emotions.

Those two eyes when I saw Princess Penia.

indifference. free of charge. it’s probably good

Rather, it was a face that showed a sense of relaxation.

The fact that it was the sensation engraved in the eyes of the excommunicated nobleman… Now that I think about it, it is very unrealistic.

“Maybe… wasn’t it so shocking that I was excommunicated…?”

After trying to spit those words out, Princess Fenia immediately shook her head again. A man who has lived his whole life in the arms of the Roth Taylor family.

No matter how blunt and calm you may be, it is shocking to be kicked out of the cradle that has been in your life for the rest of your life.

“Hmm…”

As she swiped the cover of the covered elemental science book, Princess Fenia fell into thoughts.

What kind of family is the Roth Taylor family?

The head of the Roth Taylor family whom I met at the royal banquet, Crepin Roth Taylor, came to mind.

He was a handsome nobleman with a neat and stylish appearance and a loving smile.

However, it was visible in the eyes of Princess Phenia, who was still young at the time.

The unique ‘insight’ of the Phenian princess who measures the depth of a person’s vessel. The sixth sense, like a gift from God, was clearly crying out.

The continent’s most aristocratic family, Crepin, the benevolent head of that place, can’t explain it well in words, but a dark and eerie squirrel lives in its stomach.

Behind Creepin Rothtailer, who showed the image of a benevolent ruler, there is something invisible darkness.

It clearly captured the dark faces of Crepin Rothtailer, which was revealed once and for all when he came out of the royal cabinet of state affairs.

That man is a wicked man in the mask of a good monarch. I was convinced of that long ago.

Secretly sending private troops to find out, it seems that there is a darkness no one knows about in the Roth Taylor family.

Rumor has it that there was one missing item at the Imperial Annual Reporting Meeting, and then filled in late.

Rumor has it that the user who once entered the family mansion goes missing.

Rumor has it that California Crepin Rothtailer is reading books about ancient demons.

A suspicious feeling as if something is there.

However, the problem was that there was no proper basis for that.

“…”

The hand of Princess Penia, who was stroking the back of the book, stopped.

As for the insight that judges human beings, he has never gone astray in his entire life.

No matter how unusual it may be, if her sixth sense calls out to her in the end, she will be welcomed.

So, it’s a ‘what if’ story.

The darkness of the Roth Taylor family has not yet been fully revealed even though the sixth sense cries out.

What if Ed Roth-Taylor was trying to get out of that dark Ros-Taylor family?

If that is the case, it might explain the reason why he can make such a gloomy face despite being excommunicated.

It was a natural attempt to get rid of the darkness of the Roth Taylor family.

However, the bloodline of aristocrats is not something that can be easily cast off. If you are to be expelled naturally, you must leave a corresponding ‘stain’.

“…”

Princess Fenia’s face gradually hardened.

Best of all, if that’s true…

– ‘Let go of this! Don’t you know who I am?! Ed Roth Taylor, the second son of the Roth Taylor family! Get your dirty hands away, pigs! Where are you touching your body!’

– ‘Do you think I’m going to do something like that to insult a dirty failing student or something? let this go! What are the dirty and ignorant commoners babbling about what they know!’

Even the ugliness that showed the bottom of human nature… it turns out that it was all acting.

It becomes a story that there was another secret that even God-blessed insight could not catch.

It is a story that even the princess of a country is a trickster who uses even the princess of a country as a variable to achieve her goal.

“Is that… smoke…?”

The princess immediately shook her head. It can never be.

However, the discrepancy from the appearance of Ed Roth Taylor seen in the forest constantly troubled Princess Fenia’s heart.

If it were all acting.

If you know anything about the darkness of the Roth Taylor family.

If it were to use the princess to wipe her hands from the darkness in advance.

If all this was planned in the palm of his hand.

if so…..

-widely.

“You must be really tired. me too.”

With a rattling sound, the princess pushed the chair and stood up.

Then I went to the window and felt the cool sea breeze. Her platinum hair spread and fluttered pleasantly.

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My head felt cold.

“I am chased by the admission schedule and my studies, but there is no time for me to worry about the government.”

Come and enjoy the joy of learning to the fullest. It was the encouragement the king gave to Princess Fenia who was on the road.

He deviated from the rules and manners of the imperial family to some extent, and came to the land of study. Maybe it’s time to let go of that thought.

In the beginning, he lived his life with only talking about politics, the power of the aristocracy, the treatment of the people and the international situation. Now is the time to get tired.

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Maybe he was already tired.

It’s just that you’re overestimating Ed Roth Taylor.

Not everyone lives with several layers of masks hiding their inner feelings.

Could it be that the habit of judging people’s inner feelings has become accustomed to living while walking a tightrope between the nobility and the prime ministers?

Her body was now a young girl who hadn’t even had her coming-of-age ceremony, but only her heart felt old.

In the beginning, Princess Penia wasn’t even in her age. Isn’t it a time to talk more freely and to be more interested in caring for yourself rather than judging other people’s feelings?

The princess sighed deeply as the wind blew her away.

“Has he become an old man?”

Then he looked at the mirror next to the window. A beautiful, well-maintained, platinum-haired princess stood behind the mirror in a light pajamas.

I grabbed my hair with both hands and curled it up, split it on both sides and braided it, or braided it to one side.

Then… I took another deep breath and let my hair down.

“It’s not that I’m not particularly interested in makeup, but I don’t know why I’m so shy.”

Authority sometimes binds a person. Being in the same position as the incarnation of authority, the fatigue is indescribable.

Still, there was nothing I could do, because to some, the position of this princess would seem like a blessing.

“okay. It may be that I have developed a bad habit of thinking too deeply and difficult about everything.”

Princess Fenia thought as she felt the wind. I was thinking of Ed Roth Taylor.

Knowing the darkness about the Roth Taylor family, he was deliberately excommunicated by using the princess to cut ties with it.

Such an assumption was too absurd.

It could be made to make sense by stitching together these and other premises… but it was apt to be too weak a logic.

His attitude has changed strangely 180 degrees…

“Think of it that you lost your mind because of being excommunicated.”

The one who found the location of the golden marble before Lucy Meryl and told Princess Fenia…

“That’s… I don’t know… I must have found it by accident.”

On the other hand, it seems to be too simplistic. Even Princess Fenia was aware of that, but rather, she felt refreshed.

“Even when we first chatted, I couldn’t feel the dark inside…”

After thinking up to that point, Princess Fenia’s movements hardened again.

A conversation I had with him I met in the northern forest.

I forgot about it in such a natural flow.

As soon as she saw his face, Princess Fenia immediately shot her. Come on, get out of this school. Those in this school despise you. Don’t you also despise this school? Aren’t you resentful of me for excommunicating you?

How did Ed Roth Taylor respond to that?

Those unfamiliar words spit out while looking straight at the princess of Penia with a natural face——

– ‘I’m rather grateful to the princess.’

Buried in such an absurd situation, I could not ask the meaning of those words.

What are you thankful for?

Princess Fenia is like an enemy who helped excommunicate Ed Roth Taylor.

What is there to be thankful for against such an enemy?

Is it something to be grateful for to have excommunicated him from the family?

“…”

Slowly, Princess Fenia’s movements subsided.

– Tap, tap, tap

The sound of a bonfire was heard intermittently. It was a hallucination.

The princess didn’t see much.

It was just the wide back of the boy who was gathering firewood at poker and lighting a bonfire as if he liked it.

*

– Whirlik!

“You caught it!!!”

It was the seventh bite.

It was a fishing rod in a hurry, but the result was better than I expected. There were already seven freshwater fish that looked roughly like bluegill.

This is not enough to solve the yogi, but enough to eat.

I was always hungry, but I might be able to feel the feeling of ‘satiation’ for the first time since I flew into this shitty world.

I was so satisfied that my thumbs automatically went up.

“Good fishing!!!!!”