I can do it anyway
Angelica had no choice but to fall to the floor helplessly at the boy’s push.
Eventually, when she dropped the slime she was holding in her arms, the boys crushed the slime with their feet.
“Is it because I am a commoner? You don’t feel ashamed, and you carry these dirty things very well.”
Angelica was startled by the sight and hung on the leg of the boy who was crushing the slime.
“I beg you, please. Please do not harm these children!”
At Angelica’s reaction, sadistic smiles appeared on the faces of the other two students, and the faces of the boys whose legs were caught were stained with disgust.
“Who said it was okay to touch my body?”
Whoops!
Angelica, who was kicked in the leg, had no choice but to collapse to the floor helplessly.
The boy who kicked her after she was thrown out picked up the slime as if he was touching a dirty thing.
“If this is so good, would you like to try it? Aren’t you wondering if you can work as you please even if it goes into your stomach?”
At the words of the male student, Angelica struggled to resist the hand trying to open her mouth, but was soon overpowered by the restraints of the boys clinging to her limbs.
“Let’s do that.”
It was then that Leon intervened.
Those who looked back as if surprised by the sudden voice recognized Leon’s face and frowned.
“Lion Farostel? Why don’t you interrupt me and turn it off?”
“I’ll do it anyway, but I have something to see with the lady there.”
It was Angelica who was rather surprised by Leon’s words.
We haven’t even talked to each other, let alone even say hello, so I couldn’t understand what the hell he was trying to do to help me.
Leon looked at their faces.
Poor students who come from lower ranks, such as barons or viscounts, with poor skills and grades.
“Are you the type to deal with your falling self-esteem by bumping into people who are inferior to you?”
“what?”
“If you have time like this, why don’t you practice magic one more time?”
Leon raised his hand and flashed lightning bolts, threatening them.
Seeing that, the guys frowned.
“You, do you know who we are?”
know.
Why can’t they run around like my own world when their magic skills are too low?
They were the servants of Cain Sirius, the eldest son of the Duke of Sirius.
In the future, when Cain Sirius succeeds the title of duke, these guys lined up early to put that powerful power behind them.
“Then you must know who I am.”
But even so, there was nothing they could do about Leon right now.
Even if they don’t know Leon’s true abilities, rumors that Leon completely defeated the test automata in the entrance exam are already circulating inside the academy.
“If you don’t know yet, can you tell me now?”
When Leon smiled, the guys eventually kicked their tongues and had no choice but to run away.
As they left, Leon reached out to Angelica, who had fallen to the floor.
But she didn’t even think to hold Leon’s hand.
“Hey, why the hell…?”
“yes?”
“Why did you help me? There was no reason to help me by turning them into enemies.”
Angelina was still looking at Leon with a look of terror.
He entered the academy at the age of 11 and has been bullied for over three years.
But until now, there had never been a single person who helped her while fighting the rogue students who took the Duke Sirius as their back.
That’s why I was wary of whether Leon meant something else.
But Leon reached out and grabbed Angelica’s hand and lifted her up.
“Isn’t just the reason I want to get to know you not enough?”
“What, what?”
“I want to be friends with you in the future.”
While saying that, Leon suddenly found a wound on her knee.
“Sit here for a second.”
Leon supported her and took her to a nearby bench, then took a healing potion from her subspace pocket and healed her wounds.
Looking down at Leon like that, Angelica’s face was flushed red.
It was the first time since I entered the academy that I have been treated with such respect.
‘No, maybe the first time in my life.’
Angelica looked more closely at her opponent.
Leon Farostel.
The best mass of issues that have been driving all kinds of topics in the academy lately.
But Angelica hadn’t thought much of it until this moment.
‘Because I thought I was a person from the heavens that had nothing to do with me anyway.’
Although he is said to be the eldest son, he comes from a high-ranking family called the Marquis.
Besides, he was making a name for himself as a genius who lacked the word “perfect” as he even skipped grades at the top entrance.
According to the story, Leon must have been three years younger than him, but seeing this like this, he felt sturdy and reliable for his age.
Of course, that’s the feeling, and objectively speaking, Leon’s skin was as fine and white as porcelain, although she had a delicate appearance that could easily break if it was misunderstood.
The more I look at him, the more perfect boy.
‘But why does this person want to be friends with me?’
As soon as Angelica thought of such a question, Leon’s eyes, having finished treating her wounds, met Angelica.
At that moment, her heart sank and it was not easy for her to stay sane any longer.
He just struggles to avoid Leon’s gaze.
Leon fell into deep thought at Angelica’s reaction.
‘I thought I made a good impression, but I don’t think so.’
He thought that it might be harder than he thought to get close to Angelica, who kept trying to turn his gaze away from her.
“Hey. If you haven’t joined the club yet, why don’t you join the alchemy club?”
“to?”
“Still, it was a pretty popular club until last year, but this year, all of the seniors in the 3rd grade were promoted, and the members were all 3 first-year A class students.”
I never even thought of joining a club.
Angelica also went on field trips when she entered the God Academy, but she soon realized the reality.
In this aristocratic society, she is not welcome anywhere.
‘Ah, why do you want to join our club? If you come in, our club’s water will become cloudy!’
Angelica, who was seriously hurt by the ferocious voice of a girl her age, whom she thought was gentle and kind, had decided not to join the club again after that.
Leon had been recommending a club to her.
“If there are no club activities, isn’t it difficult because there are a lot of guys like that? There are so many eyes that I see only in the classroom, so I think I’ll save my face, and I won’t touch it easily, but I’m not going to argue for nothing after class. There is no need to do anything special, so if you need a place to escape, please come to our office anytime. All the kids in our club are good kids.”
Angelica couldn’t respond to Leon’s kind suggestion.
Because he still didn’t understand why Leon was so concerned about him.
However, seeing Angelica’s confused expression on her face, Leon did not push any further and backed away.
“Then I’ll be waiting for you.”
* * *
Leon waited.
waited patiently.
However, after Leon rescued Angelica from the rogue students, she would disappear immediately with a restless attitude when she made eye contact with Leon.
“Why?”
Vincent approached Leon with a sullen expression on his face.
“Why are you making that face?”
After thinking about it for a while, Leon talked about what happened with Angelica.
With the exception of Unun, the magician, she saved Angelica from rogue students and invited her to a club, but for some reason she was shunned.
Then Vincent frowned and looked at Leon.
“You really don’t know why?”
“Do you know?”
When Leon asked the question with a look of disbelief, Vincent sighed heavily.
“Look over there, over there.”
Vincent pointed to the three students standing outside the classroom.
When they followed the finger and turned their gaze, the girls screamed and clapped in a row.
“Did you see it?”
“what?”
“Can’t you see the kids who come together every day just to see you now?”
At that, Leon grumbled with a displeased expression on his face.
“You want to see me? What cage beast am I? Will people come to see me?”
“It’s not that, it’s because it’s rumored that you’re famous and handsome.”
At that, Leon tilted his head.
Well, Dawn’s Dawn is famous, but what does that have to do with Angelica?
When Leon made an expression that did not understand at all, Vincent tapped his chest as if frustrated.
“Why? What are you talking about?”
Mary was intrigued by Vincent’s bizarre expression and approached him.
When Vincent finished explaining the situation,
“Wow, you are real. Wow······!”
Mary just poured out bullets with a look of disbelief.
Of course, Leon wasn’t blind, either, so he could understand what they wanted to say.
So, the reason Angelica avoids Leon right now is that Leon is good-looking.
‘It’s good to be good-looking. What’s the point of avoiding being handsome?’
Leon still only made a face that he couldn’t understand.
However, it is not possible to put a knife in the face to get to know Angelica.
But the opportunity came unexpectedly quickly.
Cannabis battle class.
It was a class that taught the theory of the types of monsters and the magician’s tactics against them, and that’s where the group assignment came from.
The task is to form a team of 5 people and shoot a video of each person hunting a monster.
It was a task with the purpose of realizing how important role division and cooperation are in hunting monsters, and cooperating with each other to overcome difficulties and grow.
However, as with group assignments since ancient times, group assignments often became one-man teams.
Because the evaluation of group assignments is a method in which the same team shares scores, all team members receive the same score regardless of who excels or lags behind.
Naturally, all the students started looking at each other in order to save a talented team member, and while the other students hesitated, Vincent and Mary were the first to approach Leon.
“Are you sure you won’t let us go?”
However, they did not gather to see Leon’s skills.
At first, Leon was a genius who proved his skill by making a lot of topics within the academy, but they didn’t know about Leon’s real talent.
The Leon they knew was just Leon who was gifted with outstanding talent as a researcher, and about his ability, he heard rumors that he had completely defeated the Automata Test.
However, even if that was enough, it was clear that the level of ability of the first year of secondary school was far surpassed.
“great. join my team I’ll grab you by the neck and carry you.”
There are now two seats left on Leon’s team.
The rest of the students looked at each other and couldn’t do this or that.
Not only the Sirius group, who had a bad relationship with Leon, but also those who noticed them could not approach Leon prematurely.
At that time, there was a student approaching Leon.
Arya Rothbane, who was surrounded by other students and received an ardent attack of affection, turned away from everyone and reached out to Leon.
“Accept me to your team too.”
The students’ faces were colored with astonishment at the bomb declaration.
The most famous one in the academy these days is Leon Farostel, Dawn of Dawn, but considering why the name Dawning Dawn was created in the first place, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Arya’s fame is one step higher than Leon.
She has a cold expression that doesn’t know what she’s thinking, but she has a cute appearance that no one can hate.
In addition, Arya, who made her genius known to the world through a special story of her birth, also possessed skills that would be second to none.
Do you think these two are on the same team?
That alone was not enough to be called the strongest team in name and reality.
Now, there is only one place left on Leon’s team.
The children who had been paying attention to the Sirius group until now couldn’t stay silent any longer.
“Take me! All potions and consumables needed for hunting will be provided by me!”
“me too!”
And among them was Gail Tempest, one of the geniuses that comes to mind when you think of ‘skills’.
As the eldest son of the Marquis Tempest family who rules the Wind magic tower, it is rumored that he will inherit the position of the Green magic tower.
“If it’s okay with you, can I join you? No matter how much I look at you, it seems that I am in the same class as you.”
There was a faint smile on Gail Tempest’s lips.
But in his eyes, only Arya and Leon entered.
If Gale Tempest joins this team, it means that three of the four major magic families of the Philo Kingdom will be gathered in one place.
Maybe that’s Gale’s purpose.
It is to promote friendship among the children of the 4th generation of Magical families so that they can get along well in the future.
But Leon didn’t like his eyes that much.
Above all else, the last seat had already been assigned an owner.
“Angelica.”
At Leon’s call, Angelica’s eyes widened, standing alone in the corner without being invited by anyone.
“Would you like to join our team?”
If we can recruit her, we will be able to hear a detailed explanation of her abilities using the group assignment as an excuse.
The children’s reactions to Leon’s proposal were sharply divided.
The Sirius group that was hostile to Leon, or Livid Farostel, one of Leon’s siblings, laughed at Leon’s appearance.
Angelica was obviously gifted with the rare talent of a magician, but at best she could only deal with slimes.
Slimes are non-class monsters that are also called G-class.
Considering that the standard for an F-grade monster is a level that a strong adult male can defeat, you can see how fragile a slime is.
Where would you use a magician who can only work with slimes like that?
Naturally, they had no choice but to think that Leon was hurting himself by being swayed by pity or sympathy.
And, of course, Gale Tempest’s face was frowned upon.
“Why?”
A promising candidate for the next green magic stock, he said he would join the team at the best, but he refused his offer and would accept such a half penny into the team?
For him, it was because it felt insulting.
But Leon looked straight into Gail Tempest and said,
“Because I can.”
Power is freedom.
Freedom to ignore everything and do whatever you want, even if someone else meddles with you, argues, and listens to you.
At the very least, a group assignment for secondary school.
In fact, Leon doesn’t need a team member.
Even if I go out alone and barefoot, I have the confidence to hunt more monsters than anyone else in this place.
So,
“I just needed him more than you.”