#13
dimmed lighting. A presenter who spreads the pages of his thesis made up of text and pictures as wide as a screen with artifacts applied with projection magic, and calmly walks in front of the podium and licks his lips.
Raise your voice with amplification magic.
It draws the audience’s attention and draws their attention.
how long has it been
A bird—everyone in the classroom holding their breath as if dead rat——the presenter in group 6 finally finished his turn.
It’s perfect, along with the short sound of words– Applause rushing in like a huge wave. Since then, countless requests for handshakes have been received from me as the presenter… … No, it was a courtesy, but the claps of hands, which seemed to be unusually louder than other groups’ presentations, vibrated the air inside the classroom.
‘The mistake is… … I didn’t.’
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Dozens of students and professors are a thing of the past. There was no tension at all. Just before the announcement, I was swallowing dry saliva, and after checking the script one last time, I went forward with the crew.
Alpris seemed to have distributed data not only to me but also to Lenny and Hector, but there was no question or question from the members. Lenny was so frozen that she couldn’t even open her lips properly, but it was fortunate.
The presentation was made in less than 20 minutes. In the process of explaining the results of the study, the part that Professor Gefort, who was in charge of the evaluation, was most interested in was, as expected. Among the unique magical powers of the members, when announcing mine, he made a very loud noise that made the chair rattle.
—Ho! It’s white!
Then, even though it wasn’t even the Q&A time, he suddenly asked me a lot of questions, and it was just a while ago that I was a little sweaty trying to answer them one by one.
The students who seemed to have come across information about white magic while looking through the materials looked surprised, and those who did not know what it was, tilted their heads, but as soon as the professor’s calm and passionate explanation was over, some astonished eyes looked at me. also did
This is because, in the process of explaining the white magic, the name of the great archmage who is considered the best on the continent was mentioned.
As a result, the presentation, originally scheduled for 15 minutes, was delayed by 5 minutes. You seem to be very interesting because you are a professor who teaches the fundamentals of mana, but for some reason, I feel like I will be called personally after this class is over, am I mistaken? I wish it were please.
Anyway, along with the research paper used for the presentation, he also submitted the drawing for the second assignment, which was left blank due to the absence of the youth pill, and Professor Gefort glanced at the drawing and smiled with satisfaction.
From what I can see, it seems that I liked the clean, uncluttered coloring.
Since our group was in group 6, it was a very good result considering the crooked finished versions of the groups that have been announced so far.
A+… …
can i get it
The feeling is good. Thinking that I had done something right, I swept my heart and left the podium. The crew members follow me back to their original positions. Our first grouping task ended successfully.
‘… Now I can rest a bit.’
Worry lessened a bit.
When the applause has stopped, each goes back to their seats, and the group who will present our next turn gets up from the chair and walks to the front of the podium.
whoever took the lead,
‘… … It was the 7th.’
It was Rubia.
In a really fleeting moment, our eyes met each other as we walked through the center of the intersection.
It was Rubia as usual. The eyelids that covered the blue, dark green eyes slowly opened and closed.
Rubia, who is a combat type, was quite calm, while the crew members following her seemed a bit distracted. Aren’t you going to ask me? It was like muttering the same words to a friend next to you.
— Ugh.
He carefully raised his fist as if to send him support for a good presentation, but when Rubia saw that, she had a dark expression for a moment.
‘Thank you,’ he said with a mouth, and smiled a little.
Before I could nod, Rubia passed me by. Bump, buzz-. Rubia was already sitting in front of the podium.
He turned his head to look at Rubia, then realized that there were a lot of eyes, so he found his original seat and sat quietly in the chair.
“… Article 7, we will begin the presentation.”
after a while.
Rubia giggles and opens her mouth.
A girl with a beautiful face gives off a beautiful voice that is pleasing to listen to. Rubia, speaking quietly alone in the distant silence, looked like a holy fairy on a clear lake shore.
Perhaps they admired Rubia’s appearance, it was not difficult to find a few male students talking.
With her warm, pale pink long hair, a gentle smile on her lips, and her height, which is closer to being small than superior, Rubia was a collection of neat charms that made the hearts of many male students flutter.
… … pretty is pretty
Because there is a comparison target, there are things that I think are more so for nothing. The crew members standing next to each other are all female students. Most of the students here are of high status, so there are quite a few outwardly outstanding ones, but Rubia stands out among them.
Even from an objective point of view, apart from all the personal acquaintances, Rubia was in the top class in name and reality.
If there was a hierarchy in appearance, it would be around the 8th rank.
No, I’ve never seen a girl higher than Rubia in my entire life, so I can’t decide if it’s superior or inferior to Myu, so I think it would be okay if I put it in the 10th rank. In fact, such an internal evaluation should not be done. How do you actually do that?
–at that time.
Is it an illusion to think that our eyes just met again?
Among the seated audience, Rubia, who seemed to be looking at exactly where I was for a moment, continued speaking and began to present.
After listening for the first three minutes, I thought to myself.
‘… This is an A+ confirmation.’
It was an absolutely perfect progression.
There is a moderation in the cracking gesture.
A voice with a moderate tone that makes the audience’s ears incline, adjusts the dynamics appropriately, and wraps the air inside the lecture room.
Rubia becomes serious when she does something right, so she sometimes looks like a savage child, but when she does that, she shows a strange adultness.
Of course, it was hoped that the names of the members would not be included in the evaluation of the results that Rubia would have done alone, but unfortunately, that did not happen.
Rubia is rubia.
Because it’s Rubia, who was always used to living with being hurt.
I was right next to you and sometimes corrected your words and actions, but after a certain moment, we couldn’t do that anymore… …
Even so, we meet again.
The fact that they were breathing in the same space and attending the same class evoked a strange feeling anew.
While I was watching Rubia’s presentation with my chin clenched blankly in emotion, I suddenly felt a gaze from somewhere and turned around.
From the moment he entered the classroom, Youthpil, who had looked very sleepy, was lying face down on the table over there with his head bowed, looking at me with sleepy eyes as if his eyelids had fallen.
As soon as I noticed it, I asked again.
“… … ”
… … In the end, Youth Feel was given 0 points as she wished. Because the name of the youth felt was not included in the result of group 6.
Youthpil did not have any particular complaints about such a treatment, and when he entered the classroom and faced Alfres and Lenny, he simply shut his mouth and went back to his seat, lying down on the table as it is now.
There seemed to be no intention of causing any more trouble.
Is it true that I don’t have the power to do that?
The face of Youth Phil, who looked exhausted and tired, would have just looked like he had a dirty temper before he knew the situation.
Since I decided not to meddle in the youth feel any further, I also took my eyes off the youth feel.
So time passed and passed.
—Clap clap clap clap… …
After Rubia’s presentation, which felt long but short, was followed by applause on a scale similar to the one poured out on me.
“Questions… Are you there?”
Then there is always a question-and-answer period.
Sometimes from professors, sometimes from students. Listen to the students raising their hands here and there and give clear answers.
Question baptism continues.
When the number of students raising their hands gradually decreased, and only one last person remained.
“… … Yes, you are there.”
Rubia looked at me and widened her eyes, and was forced to point towards me and said so.
I originally didn’t intend to.
It may or may not have any effect, but I thought there was nothing wrong with doing it.
“I have a question for you.”
“Yes, tell me. I will answer without departing from the topic of the presentation.”
Rubia hides her embarrassment and speaks calmly.
Half looking at Rubia, half looking at me.
I said after being silent for a while.
“He, not the presenter.”
“… … yes?”
Rubia tilts her head.
I looked to the side and said.
“Moon next to you. Heila, did you say?”
“… … !”
I remembered the name I called when I first introduced the members. Hela catches her breath in an instant. Obviously agitated movement.
You can’t openly say that he was a free rider.
I really don’t know if that was the case or not.
Just checking and asking questions.
“I have a question about the relationship between the student’s unique magic power and the magic circuit. You know better than the presenter, so I hope that person will give you an answer.”
“Uh, that’s… … ”
Rubia frowned.
He looks back at Hela with an expression of all his desires, but Hala, who doesn’t seem to know much, makes a small fuss.
If Rubia had been in charge of researching the data from start to finish, she would only know the color of her own magical powers, and obviously didn’t know anything else.
I may have learned something while listening to Rubia’s presentation, but I don’t think I’ll be able to store all that much information in my head in a short time anyway.
Rubia spoke on behalf of the troubled Hela.
“If you tell me exactly what you are curious about, I will… … ”
“No, student Hela, please answer.”
“… … ”
“When you first introduced, you said you were in charge of data research, right? Although there must have been a lot of complicated data, the thesis was really neatly and clearly organized. Your skills are great. It seems that you have researched and researched really hard, so I think you will be able to answer the questions I want to ask without difficulty.”
Hela was making the same expression as ‘Why are you doing this to me, you’.
If you’re a sincere frontier student, it wouldn’t be a really difficult question. I haven’t even heard of it, that’s right.
Anyway, I continued to ask.
“Question, is it possible?”
“I have a group that I have to announce next… … The time is a bit fuzzy… … ”
The moment when Hela spoke like that.
“If it’s a question from Ezio Cranil, I’m also interested. I will only listen to the question of Student Ezio. Heyla student, don’t worry about time and go ahead.”
Nice support. Professor Gefort.
“Then I know it’s okay to ask… … ”
“… … ”
With Heila’s pale complexion, I listened to Rubia’s announcement earlier and looked at some of the handwritten notes and pointed it out.
A simple fact-check question at first.
Questions about arithmetic expressions cited in the paper.
The question about the correlation between Heila’s own magical power and the magic circuit I mentioned earlier… …
The conversation continued without stopping in the middle.
“Uh, uh… uh… … Well… … ”
After that, after adding about three more, Hala started stuttering because of an error.
Many people inside the classroom are looking at her, and the professor is watching quietly, waiting for Hela’s answer. If you are not very good at appearing in front of people, you will feel pressure that will quickly destroy your face.
Although the first thing I brought out was an easy question if it was really easy, Hala couldn’t open her mouth easily.
It penetrated the gist of the presentation, but it was not such a novel question. I just asked a few questions that were closer to multiple choice than subjective.
I can’t answer that either, well… …
How much did you really play?
“I, Hela student? If you have a lot of questions and it is difficult to answer them, it is okay to answer just two.”
“… … ”
Now, it’s strange to take the thesis that Rubia is holding and hand it over with the information that she barely found as an answer.
“Perhaps… Don’t you know?”
“… … ”
If you don’t know, you don’t know. I see quite a few students losing their trust after seeing Hela procrastinate, but I don’t think it will have that much of an impact. Maybe we can just move on to happenings. There are quite a few cases where your hair will turn white if you suddenly get a lot of attention.
But, not the professor.
“Until there. All right, student Hela.”
The professor, whose complexion had hardened for some reason, nodded.
Hela bowed her head without saying a word.
“… The rest of the group will continue to present during the next lecture, and today’s class will end here. Everyone did a great job.”
Professor Gefort turned to Rubia.
“Except for Rubia students, group 7 students, please stay in the classroom for a while. … Oh, Rubia student, give me that thesis. okay.”
Maybe Professor Gefort noticed that it wasn’t that he couldn’t answer simply because he was under pressure, so he even called the members separately.
Hela and her teammates, who seemed to plan to eat, play, and even eat their scores raw, look at each other with their complexions pale.
So, according to the professor’s words, who announced the end of the lecture, I grabbed my bags and stood up from where I was sitting one by one.
Rubia in front of the podium stares blankly at me.
“… … ”
I pretended not to know and pretended not to know.
It’s okay if you just, a little, live by being hurt.
Rubia looks like I didn’t need to do that, but when I see her being taken to the professor one after another, it seems quite refreshing, or it doesn’t.
Anyway, he needs to practice drawing more lines. It’s a problem if people are too docile. Of course, that was ruby-like, but… …
Let me turn to Rubia for a moment.
Instead of talking to me with her mouth like before, Rubia expressed her current feelings by showing her characteristic clumsy smile.
#14
“Hey- It sounds like a complete liquidation, Ezio?”
As I left the classroom with the members, Alfres patted me on the back and said:
“It’s because you did a good job. What’s so hard about reading it on paper? Thanks to you, I ate the score raw.”
“Eat it raw. Thanks to you, I got an APL.”
“I, I don’t even make announcements, but I’m so nervous… … Ugh, I feel like I’m still churning… … ”
Hector went somewhere first—and, to my surprise, didn’t bite my tongue when I finished the presentation. If Hector hadn’t clicked his tongue, he would have done pretty well— Me, Alfres, and Lenny were talking in the hallway that they had worked hard for a while.
“So, when are we going to meet?”
These were the words of Alfres, not me.
Come to think of it, did you suggest that we have a meal together when we’re done? I told you and forgot… …
“Well… When is it good?”
“How are you this weekend? Do you all have time?”
“For now, I’m fine.”
“okay? Lenny is done. Ezio, are you?”
“Well… … ”
it’s the weekend, it’s the weekend
Today is March 31st.
Tomorrow is the beginning of the month of April.
And when it comes to April… …
“I don’t think it will be this week.”
“Oh yeah?”
don’t ask what’s going on
Alfresse, who was stroking his chin as if in concern, continued.
“Then, will you be okay next weekend? But then I don’t think I’ll be able to… … ”
“I, I am always empty.”
“Well? why? Is there anything you usually do? When you first start school, you would most actively play with your friends… … ”
After saying it, Alfres shuts his mouth as if he wanted to miss it.
Lenny mumbles as she grows pale.
“… … It’s not like that, I only train on the weekends… ”
“Oh yeah. Well. great. Then Lenny always says it’s okay. Ezio, only you and I need to coordinate.”
Lenny, you don’t really have any friends other than us… …
Swallowing those words to my heart, I said as I thought about my schedule this week and next week.
“This week is definitely not going to happen. Maybe next week.”
“He’s also a busy guy… Are you going to see a girl?”
“It’s not like that, man.”
I did say
… … Tetra-sama is a woman, so isn’t it wrong to say that?
Anyway.
“If it’s only you, how about next Saturday?”
“What… Yeah, I guess I will too. Then just. Let’s meet at the cafe where we met at around 2pm next Saturday. Are you okay?”
It’s a no problem schedule.
Lenny nodded, and so did I.
“great. See you then, everyone.”
We parted ways to go to class.
#15
Alfres said he had a schedule, but in fact, nothing has been decided yet.
you know you have to go I said that I am a newcomer, so no one knows whether or not he will be there when I visit.
… … Because of that.
Two days later, I go to meet the magic apex.
Even if I succeeded in the interview with Master Ma Thap, I still did not know what the outcome would be waiting for me.
What do you do when you hear that there is no way?
If yes, what is the method?
I don’t know anything about this either.
The fact that I had to walk into the Star of Akasha this weekend with this note was the same as the unchanging fact.
As I suddenly recalled the name of an academy-senpai who would probably be there, I quietly closed my eyes, immersed in reminiscences for no apparent reason.