271 – [5] Awards Ceremony (Restoration Completed)
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Even when I look back on my memories, I feel an emptiness that does not come to mind.
The more I forced it, the more I felt like it was mixing with my wild delusions.
So I stopped thinking.
Instead, I diligently looked into what happened a few months ago.
Of course, I didn’t ask anyone outright.
How could it not be a shame to ask questions about something that happened a few months ago after being 20 years old because you can’t remember it?
Why doesn’t the country provide old-age pension to 20-year-olds?
This is truly necessary in this era full of digital dementia, but it is a truly deplorable reality.
On the other hand, if there were a thousand of them, it would be something to make fun of and say you have digital dementia.
I always made fun of Cheonma-ri for always forgetting things, but it was nice to hear him yelling at me if I gave him some space here.
That’s why I continued the search without hesitation.
I looked up the name of the competition written below the letter and it felt like something came to mind.
“Oh yeah, I participated to get something.”
A competition focused on first graders.
But it doesn’t seem like it was done with good intentions.
So, this is a competition where I will be divided into groups with my acquaintances with very bad intentions.
It was good to catch something, but it was actually a strange competition where we had to fight against other stars.
“It ended with a lot of humanism in many ways.”
All the people they had captured were handed over to the academy.
Handing someone over without killing them is an act full of humanity.
In this era where people fight just because their eyes are bright and duel just because they meet, it is safe to say that they were treated with the best treatment.
Moreover, since most of the prisoners experienced Korea’s heart-warming culture on the spot, it could also be seen as an attempt to promote national prestige.
“But what was the winning prize…? … Ah.”
– 1St Prize: Magic Conch and Mysterious Fursuit
– Second Prize: Talking Sword.
– Third Prize: Just a fancy box.
– 4Th place prize: A mirror that shows the inner self of a person.
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– ‘Furry Love’ the student council puts love into.
There were things like this.
Of these, I was aiming for the third place prize.
The reason is because it is one of the keys to a happy ending in the game.
Of course, it was not called a fancy box in the game.
“It was Mayer’s box.”
It was an item of great value.
Of course, this is assuming that you can open it by inserting a key.
If that doesn’t work, it’s just pretty trash.
And I had the ability to turn this trash into something valuable.
“Because it’s just trash to other people anyway.”
I had to get it.
For this reason, I, Cheonma-ri, and Shannon participated in the competition.
If you only eat the top one, there is a good chance.
Even if I fail, I can somehow persuade the person who received it.
That’s why I felt the need to practice ‘mysterious science’ for a while.
Before informing the people who also participated, I put water next to the bed.
This was a prayer to increase the odds of winning the prize gacha.
I immediately fell down on my face and prayed.
“Ancestor, ancestor from my past life.”
Kang Xian needs a third place prize.
Descendants want a quick award as a momentary wish.
Please help the poor descendants.
Please.
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The first day of semester passed in vain.
It was by no means something that passed without incident.
The reality is that the first days of lectures have been replaced with online lectures due to the aftermath of the flood.
How can I say that I am safe when I am still a cadet?
It didn’t look any different from the first semester.
Honestly, it wasn’t that bad.
There is no need to dress up and go out, just stay at home.
This was the same for the lecture in question, ‘Learning Intermediate Survival Cooking through Hunting’.
There was no encounter with the goal.
I passed the first week of the semester without even knowing what I had done.
Oh, of course, I did inform the people who participated that there was an awards ceremony.
The only people who participated were Shannon and Cheonmaly.
“Wow, it’s an awards ceremony…” … ! I hope the months of waiting were worth it…… !”
“I hope so too. “Still, they were captured alive with great difficulty.”
Shannon looks forward to it as soon as the news is announced.
Her eyes revealed that the happiness circuit was running wild.
I think you will be disappointed if you expect too much.
Should I at least say something?
“What, why are you holding the award ceremony now?”
“So?”
“No, what on earth are these guys doing? The competition happened a few months ago and it has to happen now? “It’s a truly amateur operation.”
“It was done by the student council in the first place. He must be an amateur…….”
“What I am saying is that you are an amateur. “If you hold a public event like this, you’ll get criticized wherever you go.”
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A thousand birds that seem to be dissatisfied as soon as they hear it.
Her eyes contained complaints about the absurd reality.
I felt like he should not be allowed to hold the microphone at the award ceremony.
You might lose your temper and cause an accident.
This was especially true considering how boring the awards ceremony was.
I could guarantee that there was a 99.9% Chance that it would be worse than the principal’s sermon.
Unfortunately, such thinking was a hasty judgment.
This is because the competition award ceremony was held on the first day of the week following the start of the semester.
You may ask why that is a problem.
Of all the many days, it was a rainy day again.
Heavy rains with poorly maintained sewage systems.
It was the perfect day to be beaten to death during an award ceremony held outside.
“It’s raining like this, will there really be an awards ceremony tomorrow?”
“Honestly, I will act. It wasn’t long ago that there was a flood…….”
And Palaistra Academy is a place that aims for the best.
It was always an amazing place that went beyond imagination.
The trends of the times, such as climate change, were not alpha.
A weak person who refused to attend the award ceremony due to heavy rain was not worthy of attending the Academy.
Thanks to the collaboration between the suspicious student council and the crazy school, the participants gathered in a square in the middle of the city.
The faces of the participants who came through the rain showed only bitterness.
Shooaaaaa─
Rain falling from the sky like a bomb.
An umbrella barely holding on.
Water so high that it leaks into shoes.
A chair that is so wet that it looks like it is telling you not to sit on it.
The good news was that there were not that many people here.
It could be said to be the last conscience of the academy.
“Ha, it’s not like I’m giving all the awards to these people. “I brought a lot of people with me.”
But that wasn’t even something written down.
If you include the people under the rain screen on top of the podium, there were a sufficiently large number of people.
“Are those people over there high-ranking officials from the Academy?”
“Maybe it’s right? “You can see it clearly when you see him wearing a suit.”
Anyway, I don’t like the superiors.
They made the cadets sit below and they sat on top.
At least what can wizards do with rainwater?
Of course, there was one water mage here, so there was no major problem.
“Thank you for keeping the bottom of my pants wet, Shannon.”
“What? “I’m in a situation where I have to survive anyway, so I have to do something like this.”
However, other people’s eyes were also focused on this.
It was natural to look at the place where we stepped, as there was no moisture at all.
How many people were sitting in the front seats assigned by the organizer?
Some people dragged something from the corner and started setting it up in the corner of the huge platform.
It looks like the loot is just being indifferently placed there as an ornament.
However, some of the loot seemed very familiar.
There were taxidermied monsters, a huge horn of a monster presumed to be a boss, a weapon that someone had dropped, and on the other hand…….
“Wait a minute, aren’t those guys from back then?”
“Huh? Is that so?”
“Those guys back then? What on earth…… Huh? “Aren’t they the warrior candidates we captured alive?”
“Yes, it was those guys back then. “It looks like the scar left by the knife cut is still the same.”
There were also warrior candidates we had captured.
They were locked in a transparent glass container, looking only in this direction.
He looked like he was so scared that he had gone crazy.
He looked exactly like a captured slave.
Some of them gaped when they saw us sitting in the front row.
Soon, he started banging on the glass wall while crying.
The moment to unleash the power of the awakened.
But nothing happened to the glass wall.
It could be because the glass wall is strong, or it could be because they have become weak.
Or it could have been both.
The fact that everything is safe has not changed.
Because there wasn’t anything worth seeing, I turned my attention away from them.
Instead, I looked at the host coming up to the podium.
Gorgeously…… No, that woman wearing an animal mask was much more worth seeing.
“Hello! I am the president of the Furry Love Student Council! My name is ‘Alicia A. Carpenter’! “Dear cadets, we warmly welcome you to the awards ceremony before the hunting competition!”
Of course, being worth seeing does not always mean good things.
Because of his very suspicious appearance, I couldn’t really focus on what he was saying.
Actually, most of the content was unremarkable, so there was that.
Exactly, it was a speech that was worse than the principal’s lecture.
At least the principal knew how to grab the audience’s attention with the word ‘last.’
In fact, it is overused so much that after the speech is over, everyone gets exhausted and leaves.
Anyway, since audience satisfaction was low, we decided to relax.
What we heard were sounds, what we saw were people, what fell was heavy rain, and we were Buddha.
I was in a daze, as if the fluid was leaving.
And we had no idea how long this situation had continued.
“──! From now on, we will start receiving awards in earnest! First of all, here are the 10th place winners!”
I was sobered when I heard that I was awarded 10th place.
I tapped the shoulders of Cheonma-ri and Shannon, who were still on their journey to the stars.
Then I started listening.
The process of receiving the award was long, but we were nervous because we didn’t know when our name would appear.
My heart was pounding, and it got worse as I got closer to first place.
“Next is 4th place!”
It was when we finally reached 4th place.
The host approached the glass prison displaying the warrior candidates next to it.
“The 4th place winner is none other than! You have captured the low-level Sword Expert here! “I’m a first-year cadet, Cheonma-ri!”
It was a shock.
On the other hand, it was disappointing that one person was selected from 4th place.
I sighed weakly, and Cheonma-ri climbed up onto the stage, wondering where fourth place was.
After hearing several words, we shook hands and came back down.
Cool award-winning attitude.
He came out with only a certificate, perhaps to give away the product at a later date.
But is receiving it itself a good thing?
Cheonma-ri smiled.
– 4Th place prize: A mirror that shows the inner self of a person.
The product I actually received doesn’t seem to be like that.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like a strange magic item, right?
I passed it on, thinking that I would be responsible anyway.
Then, I opened all my senses to the current situation where I was ranked 3rd and was in the range of gold, silver, and bronze visibility.
I desperately looked at the host, saying, “Please, it has to be us, we have to get it.”
She smiled, perhaps knowing the desperate gaze on this side.
“3Rd place, the person who will receive the fancy box is…… !”