134. Final exam selection (3)
“That’s definitely a big deal.”
Lily looked at Sianna, who was downcast like a cat with folded ears.
Sianna’s shoulders drooped, and her usual cheerful, playful, and lovely appearance was gone.
Normally, it is highly likely that Siana’s moodiness has something to do with ‘that man’, but when I heard the story, ‘Sure it is,’ came out naturally.
Aren’s partner for the contest is ‘again’ a woman.
“Me-what should I do, Lily?”
Siana was pitifully squatting at the bedside, crying a lot.
It wasn’t Lily who would just pass by after seeing that figure.
somehow!
I will make it possible for Sianna to win love.
Even if it’s not, Siana’s love line has been cruising quite recently.
The vast database that Lily had built up based on love stories and acquaintances’ experiences over the past 21 years was enormous, and it was clear that it helped Shiana to make progress ‘quite a bit’.
In the meantime, an unexpected obstacle arose because of the preliminary round.
‘That guy is true. Whatever I do, I’ll get involved with a woman.’
Isn’t it a good move to be misunderstood as a playboy? It even looked like a swallow… … .
Lily tried to look good on Aren, but it wasn’t as easy as she thought. Lily thought of him and shook her head.
Miuna Gouna Aren is Siana’s mate. For the sake of Sianna’s happiness, all the women who linger around Aren are cunning, coquettish, lewd foxes.
“therefore!”
Lily asked as she grabbed Cianna’s shoulder. Siana waved weakly and was swung around by Lily’s arm.
“Who is that damn fox that Aren and I partnered with!?”
How dare you upset my friend Sianna! I will never pass. Lily is determined to throw Aren out that day if he flirts with Aren even a little.
“… … they say.”
“who?”
Shiana said in a dying voice. Lily urged.
“bell. Bell Irushi. Do you know who Lily is?”
Lily froze on the spot. My hair turned white.
“Who, who?”
I must have heard it wrong. Lily asked again, begging not to.
“Bell Iruthy. Since first grade.”
Shiana let out a sigh. Lily sighed as well.
But what she let out wasn’t a sigh. Maybe it was the ‘soul’.
“Lily?”
Shiana looks up at Lily, who doesn’t respond. In her eyes, Lily had already turned to stone.
“Ahhh… … .”
“Lily? Are you sick? Shall we go to the infirmary?”
It wasn’t like that. okay. I’d rather be sick
“Me, I am. Siana. Did I just say that I am a lustful and obscene fox…? … ???”
“yes? no? Did you just say damn fox?”
“Oh, my God.”
Lily’s eyes widened. I also shed tears. I hope this is a dream
Either that or that… … .
Both were words referring to the ‘candidates’ of the Church of Light that Lily, a priestess, had to attend.
That was definitely a big deal.
* * *
“May the God of Light bless you.”
“Please, I hope you have a safe start. Candidate Saint.”
“I will pray from afar.”
I feel it all over again, but I realize that the name ‘saint’ has a very heavy and deep meaning to the followers of the Church of Light.
I thought it was really amazing to see him come to Bell from early in the morning, say a word like that, and pray.
Belle was also spending the morning smiling benevolently at them and blessing them.
Since Belle was such a celebrity, her partner, me, was also tired of it.
Occasionally, there were guys who would throw a word at me as well.
―Please take good care of the candidate saint.
―Don’t get hurt, sacrifice your life… … .
-I envy you. I wanted to take you
Well, most of the sounds were not the same, so I heard it in one ear and let it out in the other.
“then. Shall we go?”
Bell finally sent all of the priest-level cadets who took route 8.
Belle was wearing a white saint’s attire with a red belt. In fact, it was the academy’s strongest armor, with all kinds of holy blessings and prayers hanging on it.
In addition, the bag she carried on her back was full of items approved as S-class by the Vatican, such as Raphael’s Bible, Hebrew’s bell, and Cameron’s cross.
‘That’s acceptable.’
In fact, they were treated as non-existent, but seeing those amazing relics, Bell had no choice but to admit that he got on the bus for free.
I was excited to see the S-class relic. ‘No matter what, she’s a candidate for the saintess.’ It is a feeling that
For the next two days, thinking that I had to protect this saintess candidate by my side, even the spirit of chivalry that hadn’t been there came into being.
So, without realizing it, I started talking nonsense.
“Let’s go. I will see you.”
“Oh. What did you say?”
“ah.”
Bell smiled and passed me. The eyes were unusual. It was a playful look.
‘sh*t.’
Even if you let go of your mind a little bit, you’ll get hit like that. Belle was a fox wearing a saint’s mask.
I started trudging along behind her.
What… … The horns stop tickling, so you have to put up with teasing.
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“Nice to meet you, everyone!”
Teams depart at one-hour intervals for each route. We were only able to depart three hours after the test started.
The wait was long, but it was less than 15 minutes before we met our first obstacle.
‘Pretento.’
He is a first-year practical teaching assistant, and he is very interested in puzzle engineering.
Naturally, the test he gave was a puzzle.
“… … Easy!?”
Pretento talked about the knowledge he only knew for about 5 minutes, and that was the last thing he said.
“M-yes? What is it?”
Naturally, Bell, who had listened intently beside him, went mental after his words. He completely forgot about the need to protect the face of the saintess candidate.
“Yes? Bell, no… … Candidate Saint? Or, do you need one more explanation? hot ha… … .”
“Hmm. Boo, please. A little slower this time.”
Bell closed her voice and focused again. It was trivial and cute to see her eyes wide open even though she couldn’t understand what she was talking about.
“… … Shh, is it easy? Do you understand? All you have to do is dismantle the magic tool and take out the ‘core’ inside. Keep in mind. Just take out the ‘core’?”
The result was the same. Bell couldn’t understand the structure of that complicated magic tool, and he couldn’t grasp the core of the problem.
Of course, so did I. The classes of the practical guys were a realm that I couldn’t understand even if I really listened.
However, it was different now. As the demonization progresses, I am in the process of realizing all the principles of the world.
The dismantling of that complicated magic tool was a piece of cake.
‘In the first place, the test task only needs to take out the core inside the magic tool.’
The magic engineering assistant ‘deliberately’ mixed difficult words and explained it in a complicated way, but this test itself did not mean to learn complicated magic engineering.
The problem is to penetrate the essence. It was a test of the cadets’ concentration, improvisational skills and creativity.
“Ha, one more time… … !”
“I’m sorry, candidate saintess. A maximum of two explanations. I am really sorry.”
Pretento bent his back 90 degrees. It was a courtesy to take because she was a candidate for sainthood.
“Eh. Ahh. Hmm. there… … Seniors? Did you understand, senior?”
“Roughly.”
I nodded.
“Five… … ! no? No way?! Is this difficult?”
While Bell was dubious, Pretento prepared an hourglass to begin. The time limit was 2 minutes.
‘But I have to clear it within one minute to get a full score.’
Even at this moment, I was worried.
Should I just smash the magic tool and take out only the core?
Or, will he skillfully dismantle the magic tools with his newly acquired knowledge?
“Then let’s begin!”
widely-
Pretento overturned the hourglass. Soft, fine sand began to fall helplessly down.
“Uh, uh. It’s a start. Quickly, let’s find a way!”
Bell urgently touched the magic tool and inspected it. Of course, there was no harvest.
I had my arms crossed because waking up in one second was so weird. While pretending to be troubled on the outside.
sand falls Belle is flustered and restless.
“Sir, senior?? Do something, do it! I don’t know!”
Belle weeps. It’s just that I seem to be very engrossed in this test.
The acting was enough.
also made a decision. Rather than bothering to dismantle the magic tools-
bang!
“Eh?”
“… … !!”
Bell looked at me with a bewildered face. He looks like he’s about to swear, asking what the hell did he do?
Either that or not, I held the yellow-emitting core in the wreckage of the smashed magic tool in my hand.
“Here it is.”
“… … !”
Pretento must have been quite taken aback by my actions, so he didn’t say anything from a while ago.
“The test question is to take out the ‘core’, isn’t it necessary to dismantle the magic tools one by one?”
It seemed like he was asking for an explanation of why he did this, so he kindly explained it.
“ha ha ha. Amazing, this.”
Usually, cadets facing this problem fall into three categories.
A student who dismantles magic tools after somehow awakening to the principle. The cadet breaks the magic tool and takes out the core because there is no time. And even the cadets who couldn’t solve the test because they ran out of time.
It would be very rare for a cadet to penetrate the essence from the start and smash magic tools like me.
“Perfect score, I gave it.”
“yes?”
Bell opened her eyes wide and looked back and forth between Pretento and me. I don’t understand what the situation is.
Pretento kindly explained the essence of this test to our candidate saint.
“… … So, the result is more important than the process. Surprisingly, Cadet Aren noticed that and broke the magic tool. Yes?”
Pretento smiled and looked at me. It’s not a big deal, but it was embarrassing to pack it so excessively. I quietly nodded my head.
“Whoa, whoa… … .”
Bell seems to have been fascinated by all of this. He looked up at me with his eyes shining brightly.
“Incredible.”
“haha. It seems that the saintess candidate is very curious.”
Pretento said Bell’s appearance was cute.
Even if she is a saintess candidate, she is still just an ordinary girl who doesn’t know many things. What’s more, the usual Saintess Belle didn’t feel the aura at all. She’s just a friendly neighborhood sister-in-law.
“yes? Ahhh. yes… … How amazing. You learn a lot.”
Bell, belatedly, pretended to be calm and put her hands together. I could barely contain myself from bursting out laughing again.
“Senior Aren. Thank you. Thanks to you, I passed the first test safely. I am grateful that the God of Light has looked over all of this… … .”
Bell clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and prayed. It would be ‘pretend’ to be precise.
“Yes. Then move on. good luck!”
Pretento handed us a point notebook. Bell and I both had a perfect score of 10 each.
* * *
“I’ve been thinking about it.”
As I was diligently climbing the mountain, Bell suddenly spoke to me from behind.
“You knew that from the start, right? Right?”
“yes? what?”
Turning around, Bell was perched on a rock, staring at me. When did you sit… … ?
“You knew the answer. But you were just watching me worrying like an idiot, right? Right?”
Bell crossed her arms and puffed out her cheeks. Aren’t you getting angry at a really unexpected timing?
“That was not my intention.”
“really… … .”
And then, Bell naturally corrects her posture and sits down.
‘Aha. i get it.’
I suddenly wondered what kind of quarrel it was.
My legs hurt, but I couldn’t tell them to take a break because my pride was hurt, and it was my intention to pretend to be angry and take a break.
Oh, should I say bell?
It’s Bell with heavy relics on his back. It was natural for my legs to hurt. I didn’t have to say it back and forth.
“Candidate Saint. If you want to take a break from now on, just feel free to tell me.”
“… … !?”
Due to the environment she grew up in, she has a strange self-defense temperament hidden in her words and actions. Of course, it would be right to fix Belle’s weird and sinister habit.
“Give me your luggage. I’ll put it on the floor.”
Bell is on my palm anyway. Since you know her heart from one to ten, let’s correct her habits one by one with the feeling of taking care of a child.
“… … Thank you.”
I felt sorry for Bell as well.
“uh?”
Then, suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he raised his head.
“surprise attack!?”
I was also wary of the sudden wave of magic power. But there was no need.
“Aren!”
It wasn’t a surprise attack, it was because it was Shiana.
No, is ambush better? All of a sudden, Shiana wonders what’s going on here.
A feeling of uneasiness crept in.
“Siana? How did you get here? exam?”
“Yes? The exams are almost over, so I came here to cheer for Aren!”
Are the exams almost over? Even if you were the first to start, it would have been only 4 hours since you started.
something is a little strange There was no way Shiana would be eager for this test. He must be a guy who just takes a leisurely walk, plays with squirrels, and observes flowers.
“Do you know someone?”
Bell came up to me at some point and asked.
“Ah, candidate saint.”
“hello. lady candidate. My name is Cyana Plaen. I’ve heard a lot of stories. It is an honour.”
Before I could answer, Shiana finished her self-introduction.
“ah. nice to meet you Senior Siana. I have heard a lot of stories too.”
“yes? you talking about me? Who? Aren’t you?”
At some point, I was excluded from the conversation. I slowly opened my eyes and saw Siana’s expression.
‘I’m only laughing… … !’
It’s an emergency situation. The foreboding was not good.
“ah? yes. That’s because he’s so famous. Senior Siana.”
Bell must have sensed some sort of strange hostility from Cyana, and started laughing awkwardly.
“Yes. That’s right.”
And then, Siana-
“uh?”
Isn’t it really like a butterfly flying without notice and being embraced in my arms?
As Cianna hugged me tightly, her silver hair tucked the top of her head just below her chin.
Then her sweet body odor rises, and I can’t help it when I smell it so defenselessly.
“C’mon, Siana. What are you doing?”
I came to my senses late. It wasn’t just the two of them. There was also a bell.
“You know. lady candidate. Aren, please take care of me? I am anxious because Aren is often injured.”
So I looked at Bell while keeping an eye on him… … .
‘Why is he like that again?’
Bell, well, must’ve been frozen in place, distraught.