56 – Why don’t you come out and explain yourself?
The next morning, a strange message arrived in Trivia.
[ ▶ Do you need a midterm evaluation genealogy? ]
The sender is anonymous.
If you ask me if I need it, of course I don’t. Trivia was covered without any response.
[ *Sepia ]
[ ▶ Plan students! ]
[ ▶ When is it okay to report? ]
I used to think this interview was just annoying, but now I feel the need for it.
You should be able to use it well to strongly express your will to participate in the subjugation festival.
[ ▷ I’m thinking about it after the midterm evaluation. ]
After replying to Sepia, I washed her and dressed her. Today we have to gather in the Class A classroom.
The share of midterm evaluation in grades is by no means small.
I wonder if the heat raised by the victory of the Sword Matthew Festival has subsided a little. The moment I opened the classroom door with that thought in mind.
All the students’ eyes turned to me at once.
They are all strange eyes, but the way they look at each other is distinctly different from before.
I knew as soon as I met those eyes. It must have been an absurd expectation to hope that the fever would subside.
‘… I didn’t even expect it.’
They need a lot of victories. The number of victories is so large that it can become dull.
“It’s flan.”
“Hey, don’t stare too openly.”
Leaving behind the sound that followed like a shadow, I quietly sat down.
It’s still annoying, but it’s a little better now in that there’s no blatant arguing like before.
“Flan, hello.”
After a while, Becky casually came and sat next to me. She was still wearing the scent of roses.
“What are these people talking about? Everyone look here Today is the midterm evaluation.”
At that time, a male professor I had never seen before, not Violet, appeared.
Becky recognized the fat, bald-looking professor.
“Isn’t that Professor Brody? You must not be in charge of the first year….”
Similar murmurs erupted elsewhere, but the male professor silently unfolded a large piece of paper.
“Professor Violet is a little late, so I decided to lead only this morning.”
The large piece of paper wriggled like a living creature and soon stuck to the blackboard like a magnet.
“Because it’s right before the midterm, everyone checks their grades once in a while. Keep the high ones, do well with the low ones.”
Naturally, everyone’s eyes turned to the large piece of paper attached to the blackboard.
The scores of the tests we had been through and the ranking of the total calculated scores were listed there.
Various reactions were mixed here and there.
Some students nodded their heads with satisfied expressions, but of course more students sighed with sad expressions.
I only took a rough look at the overall score rankings.
1. Plan
2. Louis Rosewald
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By the time I looked at that obvious ranking, all eyes in the classroom were already focused on me.
I looked at some of the gazes directed at me.
Trixie has a delicate look, and Louis smiles brightly when her eyes meet.
“Wow…. Plan, congratulations.”
Becky silently pretended to clap next to me. And indirectly ask
“… By the way, did you eat the chocolate I gave you last time?”
I shook my head.
If that’s the case, it’s still kept in the dormitory. Becky’s lips curled slightly.
“Uh, huh? Okay? Why haven’t you eaten yet….”
“I want to touch it later. There could be other reasons.”
“Huh? Ah, ah~”
Becky twisted her hair with an embarrassed expression.
“Was it a waste to eat… ? It’s roughly made just eat it! I’ll make another one later.”
“Did you organize the data?”
“… What did I just do wrong?”
Her expression went pale. Just then, Brody opened her mouth again.
“Guys. Shut up. It’s not like I’m singing something…. Everyone has checked the results, right?”
Looking at the slightly sullen students, he continues.
“Professor Violet is busy, but that’s not why I came in.”
The professor’s gaze turned to me. The eyes of other students naturally follow it.
“As you all know, there is some time left before entering the fair. After checking the grades just now, what do you think, there is no one who wants to play?”
Brody played her visual record on her blackboard. It was the scene where I dealt with Ivan in the sword festival.
“Let’s use the remaining time to learn a little about summoning. Today, I will give a lecture using this record.”
The sound of sighs leaks from here and there. The time record is continuously played back.
“Now, look. Summoning is based on observation.”
I nodded quietly at his words.
However, it would have been better if you told me in a little more detail that magical observation is the basis.
“The controls are sophisticated, right? This is thanks to the combination of mana. You pour only a certain amount. Otherwise, both sides will be overloaded.”
You are not wrong.
However, if it were me, I would have explained in detail how to calculate the amount of mana.
And the scene where the Ivan doll blocks the sword. Professor Brody suddenly stopped playing the record.
“….”
Rewind the record a bit and watch the scene over and over again about five times.
“Sup….”
And I even tilted my head. Suspicion slowly spreads to the faces of the students as well.
“There are some things I want to ask you.”
Finally he turned his head towards me. Tuk-tuk, take out the pointer stick and knock on the blackboard.
“… This part, how did you move the summoned beast?”
He asked about ‘movement’, not ‘summon’.
However.
The extent of the question is still too abstract. If you ask me like that, there aren’t many answers I can give.
“I didn’t mean to.”
“What, what? No…. No. First, start with something else.”
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Brody shook his head, as if it wasn’t an urgent matter now.
“So you’re saying that summoned beast moved on its own? I’m asking how you manipulated it.”
“It’s not at all wrong to move freely.”
“No…. Yumma.”
Tuk-tuk-tuk, Brody nervously tapped the blackboard. It was the part of the summoned wrist that moved softly and resolutely.
I am frustrated as I am.
The question is still superficial, and there is a limit to explaining it only with words.
“How did you move your limbs, including your wrist here? You have to explain that part in detail.”
“Then why don’t you elaborate?”
I calmly continued.
“Over 230 joints, 78 organs, and each muscle…. It is impossible to explain all of it.”
“What… ?”
Brody grimaced blatantly.
After a moment of silence, he opened his mouth again.
“What did you just say?”
“As you have heard.”
“No no, not that.”
Brody shook his head.
“What about the over 230 you just mentioned…. Are you sure you’re calculating all of that and moving the summons?”
I nodded quietly.
“….”
After a moment of silence, we sighed at the same time.
Each other understood better than anyone else that there was a limit to explanation and communication through Q&A alone.
Finally, Brody chined up.
“Then can you do that now? Summons.”
“It’s easy, but.”
After a brief pause, I continued.
“Just by showing…. I don’t think you understand.”
“What… ?”
Brody’s eyes narrowed.
He held the pointer stick upside down. Then he holds it out with the handle side facing me.
“Okay. Then, why don’t you come out and explain yourself?”
I can clearly read the thoughts written on his expression. Curiosity, distrust, doubt, anger…. All kinds of emotions are intertwined.
He wants my proof.
I am not angry. Because it’s natural. I didn’t even expect it in the first place.
No matter how much I was a professor, there must have been a limit to perfectly understanding my summons.
“You have about 45 minutes left. Wouldn’t that be enough?”
As he said, there are only about 45 minutes left.
Yes. Suffice.
I stood up.
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Everyone stared blankly at him as he stepped out to the front of the lecture hall.
A tall man who can look down on any opponent, a high nose, and a sharp jawline.
Regardless of his social status, he was born with high human nature.
“Nice to meet you.”
He stood in front of the students with an indifferent face.
A few people burst into laughter at those short three letters. Not because it’s funny, but because he’s really like a professor.
Plan once again checked the way he was dressed. And he scans the students once in a while.
“… Yes, nice to meet you too.”
After muttering that, I slowly looked at the appearance in front of the classroom.
A faint smile even crossed his face. It was something unknown to the students.
After a while, his mouth opened.
“From now on, we will explain the movement of summoned beasts. In terms of series…. It must be ‘manipulation’.”
As if he was used to this kind of situation, his attitude was nonchalant. Some of the students who were watching swallowed dry saliva.
“Everyone gets scared when a lot of figures appear, but there is no need to think too hard.”
What flan felt natural about was the same for Brody.
He is familiar and skillful. He was drowning himself now.
Around that time, Becky and Plan’s eyes met in the air. He snaps his fingers lightly.
Pew-!
“Becky… ?”
“Bekine?”
The students murmured.
What appeared as the light fog spread was a summoned beast that imitated Becky’s appearance.
“Is that me?”
Becky murmured in bewilderment.
“This summoned beast only imitated its appearance. You can tell right away when you move.”
The Becky doll started walking. However, the movement of the body creaking here and there is close to a mess.
“If you just try to summon what you think of without any expansive thinking, this is what comes out.”
He raised the corner of his mouth very slightly.
“Because there are occasional summons…. It is difficult for some to move and difficult to maneuver. Isn’t that what it is?”
Then Brody opened his mouth.
Plan’s tone was quite rude, but to my surprise, curiosity took precedence over anger now.
“Okay. So, how is your summoning done?”
The way the professor asked the question was not nice.
For Brody, who has spent his entire life in the ‘summoning’ teaching profession, the appearance of Plan itself is a contradiction.
“Magic Thinking.”
And Plan answered the professor immediately with only five words.
The Becky doll started moving again. But this time it is markedly different.
His movements are light. Also, even the smallest part, such as smelling the scent of the sleeves in the middle, was the same.
Becky and Brody’s eyes widened. The reactions of other students were not very different.
“The world you have seen so far is all an illusion.”
He pointed at the Becky doll with his chin.
“And now…. We live under the illusion of seeing.”
Plann tapped his index finger under his eyes twice.
“But you should know that if you just accept this landscape as it is, it would be embarrassing to call it a wizard.”
Damn—!
“In a moment, I will share my view with you guys.”
He snaps his fingers. Blue lines began to appear distinctly on Becky’s doll.
“It is a circuit. Make every moment an effort to read and remember this. Only then will you see it for the first time.”
Behaviors, habits, joints, organs…. You tied it all together into one circuit and saw it as a whole?
It is easy in theory, but difficult to apply. Brodygier, the professor, knew that better than anyone else.
“Wait a minute.”
Brody cut off Plan’s explanation.
“It’s classic and great. But one question remains?”
“… What point?”
“The one you modeled and summoned is the original wizard. Yes?”
The professor pointed at the Becky doll with his hand.
“Wizards basically have mana circuits. That’s why it is possible to observe the mana circuit.”
Plan just stares at Brody.
As if it was natural to ask any question, as if it was expected. He seemed to have no expectations.
“Then how did you summon Ivan’s swordsmanship? A knight’s actions don’t have a mana circuit to speak of.”
Brody’s face is full of doubts.
The basics of summoning is to implement the mana circuit of the ‘original motion’ as it is.
However.
If it is an ‘original movement’ without a mana circuit, implementing it is close to the realm of deterrence.
“Can you explain that too?”
“Simple.”
Plan created three non-element spheres and sent them flying towards the wall.
When it touched the wall, a circuit similar to the shape of a maze began to be drawn.
“Wow….”
“Wow….”
Students vomited admiration. Plan continues the explanation with a calm attitude.
“Interaction with magic. Rules read at that moment.”
“Rules?”
“At that time, three spheres also touched Ivan’s body, and right after that, she turned her swordsmanship into a circuit.”
“Circuiting…. Called… ?”
Even as a professor, he had never thought of making a non-existent circuit and approaching it.
Could it have stopped? Probably most of them. No, everything.
Brody swallowed once.
After becoming a teacher, I have always taught someone, so learning is now a very strange feeling.
But he’s clearly interested now. He learns something new and tries to remember it.
Two letters to express this already existed.
Learning.
Became Professor at Academy.
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