Winter (3)
There is always a quiet atmosphere on Aken Island during the vacation season.
The buildings in the faculty building, which were crowded with people during the semester, are also empty. Since less than half of the students remain at school without going back to their hometown, the atmosphere is similar wherever they go.
Since the vacation season is the off-season for the commercial districts of the living quarters, it is also a season for many store owners to take a break and take a break.
“Hmm…”
I looked at the window of the academic building at the entrance of the faculty building and organized my clothes. I adjusted the buttons on the sleeves and pulled the collar of the coat to match the overall line.
When I retrieved the school uniform that had been entrusted with the laundry and put it on, it was really stiff and neat.
It is very difficult to manage school uniforms by yourself. This part owes a lot to Bel Maia.
“Anyway, the amount of laundry always comes out in large quantities, so there is no big change in the amount of work just because one more uniform is added.”
“Still, it doesn’t change the fact that there are a lot of things I need to do, but I’m thankful for it at a busy time.”
“At first, I was a member of the Ophelis Hall, so it’s a spherical one, and I’m also an acquaintance of the people I serve, so I can show that level of flexibility. You don’t have to feel too burdened, so please let me know when it’s time to do laundry again.”
Bellmaia, whom I met after a long time, has not changed. Indeed, it is first-class in terms of attitude.
The modest senior maid’s attire was changed to a rather glamorous maid dress, but the tone and dull expression were still there.
Her hair was a little longer now, and there is also a rose pin the size of a fingernail on her right side hair, which has come down unusually long.
“Did you say that the restoration of the Ophelis Pavilion has been completed? It is time for new students to join the company, so the maids must have a lot of trouble.”
“Master Ed. But why are you still respectful?”
“John is comfortable.”
“I’m comfortable with the lower back.”
“I’m comfortable with John.”
It feels like there is a strange nerve war going on.
In fact, if I was the head of a maid, I would be on the edge of a ‘elder level’ position among the academic staff.
I didn’t want to make a tale about the genealogy later on, so I was just respectful, but it was so inconvenient for Belle. After all, she is a heavenly maid.
“Anyway, the restoration of the Ophelis Hall has been completed, so I feel like my workplace is becoming more stable.”
“It is a bit surprising that the restoration was completed in almost one semester.
“It is one of the most important facilities in the living quarters. Most of the students who used to live in the temporary living quarters were allotted a room and started moving. The same goes for freshmen.”
The second semester of the sophomore year has come to an end, and the winter vacation that marks the end of the year has come.
The test scores came out fairly well, and the closing ceremony was finished neatly, giving the school a peaceful vibe again.
In terms of academic administration, winter vacation is a preparation period for the start of the next semester.
A season to finish work that must be done between one semester and the next. As it is such a transitional period, many things change within the undergraduate school.
Each professor’s lab is busy preparing for the next semester’s academic schedule, and the research work itself runs non-stop.
The same is true for new students entering the dormitory. Because each student has different circumstances and a different schedule, many students join the company in advance according to their schedule during the long winter break.
“By the way, I actually came here because I wanted to ask you something.”
Bell said so and stood on the street for a while.
When you get to the position of the head of a maid, you have a lot of responsibilities and your butt gets heavy.
It’s about delivering school uniforms that have been asked to do laundry. It’s enough to have one low-ranking maid, and what is the reason he came to visit him himself… In the end, it was because he had something to say.
“Starting this vacation, there are 7 new students from Ophelis that we need to take care of.”
Only 7 of those many freshmen. It is a number that directly shows how high the hurdles of entering the Ophelis Hall are.
“One of them has a familiar name, so I came to check it out.”
“Tanya Rothtailer?”
“…Yes. In fact, you already applied for the dormitory early before the vacation started.”
Freshmen can enter the designated dormitory at any time during vacation. This is to give them time to prepare for the start of the semester.
Still, most of them complete their preparations at home, and enter the bachelor’s degree only around the time of the placement test. You have to come early because there is nothing to do.
“You have been assigned a room in the reconstructed Ophelis Hall, and you are in the process of moving, but… are you not the entrance?”
“…”
I was excommunicated from the Roth Taylor family.
Tanya is a young girl who is loved by the Roth Taylor family.
“And, as you are your younger sister, you know better than I do… It seems that you are holding a grudge against Master Ed for damaging the family’s honor.”
“okay.”
“…”
Bell is just staring at me quietly, as if the dry reaction is not very good.
“Are you okay? I am in a position where I can only judge based on the personal information I received in advance or the first impression… but just by looking at it for a while, I can feel that Tanya is a person who gives a lot of meaning to the honor of the family.”
“I understand what you mean.”
Flesh and blood despise you. If one day you start to be despised by a family who shared a dazzling background in the past, it will certainly be mentally arduous and difficult.
In short, Bell was worried and came to tell me in advance. Do you want to prepare your heart?
“Thank you for your concern.”
You already know Tanya well.
＜Failed Swordsman of Sylvania> Act 3, Scene 3. In the episode of the student council election campaign centered on political warfare, the first person to aim for the honor of the first-year student council president in Sylvania’s history.
As is the case with characters from the Roth Taylor family, they are villains.
Tanya looks up to her noble honor and glory. In this star-filled Sylvania, the position of the youngest student council president would seem like a coveted fruit.
I shut my eyes softly.
villain girl.
Tanya is a stereotype of the magical word itself, but that shouldn’t be viewed as a mere wasteful villain. Because Tanya also has her own natural talent.
Tanya is a political genius.
A person who has learned how to argue for a cause, divide sides, scratch the opponent, mislead the problem, and bring legitimacy to himself.
Political warfare is, after all, a battle in the filthy mud. At least in Tanya’s values.
Politics is more often than not a process of finding the best option, but rather a process of finding the least bad option.
If there is a worst (最惡) and a lesser evil (遮惡), the public has no choice but to take the side of the lesser evil.
Victory in political warfare is ultimately about who can become the lesser evil.
Those are the values that Tanya Roth-Taylor instinctively learned.
The reason he came to Sylvania so early was to secure his power as much as possible before the semester started.
He will go around meeting and conciliating influential, high-powered insiders.
In the process, what will he do with Ed Roth Taylor, who was born in the same bloodline?
Although blood and blood, I am in a position where I was excommunicated, so I can say that I am a man and a woman right now.
Still, due to Tanya’s personality, it doesn’t seem like she’s going to leave anyone who has painted her family’s name alone, but I can’t judge whether or not she’ll hold a grudge against me enough to take an aggressive move.
Because… I don’t know! No one else but me!
I’ve played Sylvania’s Failed Sword Castle countless times. I know a little bit about Tanya, who plays a very important villain, but ironically, I don’t know anything about myself.
Ed Roth Taylor is a sparkling villain who appears briefly in the beginning and disappears quickly…!
It’s not even handled properly in the setting book, there’s nothing really great about it, and it’s a real extra…!
What kind of attitude he lived in the Roth Taylor mansion, what was the evaluation within the family, what was his relationship with Tanya Roth Taylor… There are no real clues. Not even one…!
However, considering the history of this body… it is possible to infer that it would not have been treated very well.
It’d be nice if it was treated like a normal thing, but I’m glad I wasn’t despised because I didn’t have the ability to deal with arrogant subjects.
“Well, I’m busy right now… If Tanya doesn’t show anything first, there’s no reason for me to worry too much.”
“If you say that, as a mere user, I have nothing more to say.”
“Anyway, thank you. Still, it was a headache because I had to wash my uniform again because I was going to work as a bachelor’s scholarship student.”
“it’s okay. It seems that Miss Lucy has been taking care of me a lot lately, but it was also because our work wasn’t clear, so I was very uncomfortable.”
“Did you even consider that?”
Bell glanced over his chin and smirked.
“Recently, while I was washing Miss Lucy’s clothes, a lot of blonde hair came out. Even while washing Bok Ed’s clothes, a lot of things like the scent of incense used on Miss Lucy’s clothes and pure white hair came out… I was just making an analogy like that.”
Clearly, these days, Lucy has started to stick to her even more.
If I’m not doing any special physical work, I feel like I’m snoring on my stomach when I lie down on my lap on my stomach or wake up from a nap.
As Bell said, he was in a strangely difficult position, but to have noticed that with just one washing of clothes… What would he have done if he hadn’t been a maid…?
“Well… Mr. Bell doesn’t have to worry about that. Even just giving out food items occasionally and helping me out like this once in a while is something I’m proud of. If you had a maid outfit, there would be many other things to worry about, right? Well, whether it’s business… or relationships…”
“There are so many talented people on the business side, and I feel more comfortable as the amount of physical labor itself has decreased since management and supervision became the main task. And it’s about human relationships, more than me, Master Ed… um…”
Bell continued the conversation, then looked at my uniform after washing for a while, and then blurted out.
“no. Excessive worrying will also be a burden. No matter how complicated the human relationship around you, Master Ed, is up to you.”
“?”
“I will not go beyond the topic. Whatever the ladies decide… it’s your choice.”
Having said that, as they exhaled each other once in a while, breaths came out and scattered endlessly into the sky.
“It is very cold. Ed, please take care of your health too. It’s a lot of trouble if you do a small bottle in the winter. Your face is reddish and you have a low fever.”
“…do you drink a lot of tea?”
Indeed, among the maids of the Ophelis Hall, he is a human being who has been the ace for several years. Is it possible to check health status just by looking at your face?
“I think I will have to live with a slight fever for the time being due to circumstances.”
“If you do not take good care of your body, there are many people around you who will be hurt in many ways. Anyway, health is the best. It looks like it will get colder in the future, so please be careful.”
And Bell looked at me quietly and spoke one more time.
“…but are you really going to keep being respectful?”
Really… it’s awful…
To be honest, I looked at the timing and thought about just letting go, but…
At this point, I also have an itch…?
*
“Bachelor’s Scholarships, thank you for coming. My name is Anise Halan, who works as a Principal Assistant in Professor Claire’s lab.”
“Uh… uh… uh…”
“Now, Assistant Professor Claire has been awake for 44 hours to deal with the conference agenda and check the academic schedule for next semester. The deadline for the agenda is tomorrow. So now communication is impossible. I’ll take the important issues and deliver them on my behalf, as the head assistant.”
Behind Anise, who is smiling with a gleaming face, a blonde woman can be seen lying on her desk with her face down.
The figure taking off his glasses to one side and resting with a tired face is a zombie rather than a human being.
In one corner of the fairly spacious laboratory, three male students including myself were standing. It was a bachelor’s scholarship student who was selected one by one from each grade level.
Clevius Nortondale, Ed Roth Taylor, Onyx Felomere. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade in that order. I’m going to go up one grade at a time soon, though.
“What, what? Ed Roth Taylor…why are you here…?”
When I saw the appearance of Clevius, I was a little surprised.
He is a descendant of the Nortondale family, the best swordsman on the continent, but because of the mistakes he made as a child, the family almost abandoned him as a child. Thanks to this, my self-esteem is low, and my attitude is negative in everything.
He knew that he was not getting enough support from his family.
I thought I would continue to go to school somehow, but I was making up for the lack of tuition in this way.
In addition, there was also a third-year senior named Onyx, who had a reliable build, and this was a completely new encounter. I heard that you belonged to the same combat team as Clevius.
“What our bachelor’s scholarship students do is to prepare for the upcoming freshman class placement test and supervise on the day of the test. In fact, you can say that this is the main job.”
Anise still grinned and set the papers down on the table.
“This is the plan for the freshman class placement test that Claire’s assistant professor has written over the past week.”
A class placement test for freshmen conducted annually by Professor Glast. This year, Claire Assistant Professor will be in charge.
Of course, the consequences are known.
There is not a single student assigned to Class A of the Ministry of Magic by Claire’s class placement test.
In a way, it can be said that he is worse than Professor Glast, but in fact, it is not because the professor in charge has a bad personality… It is because there is a fundamental flaw in the design of the test.
In fact, what could be called a flaw, the difficulty was just too difficult. Clearly, it was Claire assistant professor’s business mistake.
Freshmen just don’t know what to do, so they just accepted that it’s so hard to get into class A. They must work hard and be upgraded to class A.
Still, it’s funny that it’s fairer than Professor Glast, who just tried to pick out Class A students according to my shaky standards. No one was able to get into Class A, so it was strange to say that it was unfair.
“Last year, it was held in the forest just north of Aken Island, but today it will be held on the right mountain in the northwest corner. It’s more like a garden than a mountain, but it will take some time to climb as the road is rough. It’s unlikely, but in case someone is in distress, we should prepare for it.”
Aken Island is more prosperous towards the south. Conversely, the further north you go, the quieter the natural land becomes.
This is because there are only two bridges, southeast and southwest, that are connected to the Nofaren Peninsula on the protruding continent.
Since the area around the bridge connected to the continent is a key point of traffic, it was natural that the further north you went, the less people could reach it.
The right mountain on the northwest side of Aken Island naturally maintained its beautiful appearance. Apparently, Assistant Professor Claire chose that mountain as the place for her class assignment test.
“The basic gist is similar to last year’s exam. We’re going to place magic stones here and there on the right mountain, and each student will use their mana sensitivity to find them. And if you find a magic stone, offer it to the ‘Altar of Charity’ at the top of the mountain, and the test is over. You can get a grade A. Below that, the grading standards are well documented.”
“…Do you think there will be too many students from Class A?”
Onyx Felomere. The 3rd year combat team, with a solid build, asked a natural question.
“If you’re a student at the Magic Department, isn’t it easy to simply find a magic stone? Even those who find it with simple labor without being affected by magic might come out. Is it enough to simply offer it to the altar of the summit?”
“Of course, the road to the top is not clear. From the middle of the hill, we will lay out all sorts of psychedelic magic and directional delusion magic, and at the top, we will have to deal with mid-level monsters.”
“You mean freeing the monsters? What are you going to do if someone gets injured?”
“Of course, it’s hallucinogenic magic. However, if you do not defeat the illusion, the path will not be cleared. It won’t be easy if you don’t have combat experience.”
In short, the content of the test is to find the magic stone, to reach the top, to defeat the demonic illusions, and to successfully offer the magic stone to the altar… The success or failure of each element is the grading criterion. .
“Onyx sunbaenim assists Claire in writing the procurement plan and arrangement plan for magic engineering supplies, Clavius reports to the Trix Hall and submits the documents, then picks up the necessary supplies that he had requested in advance, and Ed Rothtailer… .”
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Maybe it was because I was the only second-year classmate, Anise calmly spoke to me.
And he approached me in stride, gave me a bright and bright smile, and then made a friendly suggestion to me.
“Let’s go on a field trip with me.”
In fact, we’ve never even talked to each other, but I was very impressed with their friendly smile.