The Only Male Student in the Academy chapter 33

033. Dungeon Attack with Underground Water (2)

The bed was not good.

Marie stood up with drowsiness. I feel so bad, as if I’m sleeping.

“…My whole body hurts.”

This was the first time I slept in a sleeping bag. I didn’t get it after trying it, but the sleeping bag is not as fluffy as I thought.

Is it slightly better than sleeping on the bare ground? It wasn’t until I lost sight of how precious a bed matrix was that I realized.

Marie gets out of the sleeping bag with a grim face. Her sleep is less awake and her head is not working.

Avoid crawling When you open the tent door, you can see Ariel.

“……I don’t know if this is correct.”

She frowned and saw Ariel peering into her saucepan. …… Ariel is cooking.

Ariel is cooking. It took me some time to understand that short sentence.

‘There was no image of Ariel cooking…….’

In fact, I can feel the embarrassment up to this point. Handling the pot and adjusting the heat are all clumsy.

You can’t cook….

That fact somehow reassures me.

Up until now, Ariel was a bit inhumane.

In that respect, I can say that she is cute when she is clumsy at cooking.

“By the way, when did Ariel wake up…?”

Looking at the pocket watch, the current time is 7:30 am.

Alternately with her watch, she casually stares at Ariel’s face. I don’t know if it’s because of her mood, but her eyes are quite wide.

… ….

“Ariel, are you preparing breakfast…?”

Marie left her tent and spoke to Ariel.

Ariel looks slightly surprised as she looks this way.

“Marie, are you awake? You woke up quite early.”

“I can do the breakfast preparation…?”

“Yesterday you did it, so today I was going to do it….But it was difficult to control the firepower.”

Saying that, Ariel glanced at her firewood piled up in a corner.

It was difficult for her.

In noble mansions, the fire must be controlled with magic, but in a place like this, you have to manually adjust it with firewood.

“If there is no fire magic, it will be difficult…”

“I guess so…”

“I’ll just cook… Ariel is sitting and waiting.”

Maybe because I just got up. Without stuttering, nervousness, or hesitation, Marie pushed Ariel away.

She acted quite boldly for a Mari, but she didn’t notice because her consciousness was still hazy.

“……Sorry.”

Ariel withdrew as if there was nothing she could do about it. You know that cooking is not her domain.

I didn’t come here to ask for an apology….

… Maybe she didn’t want to hear that she was grateful.

She somehow made Ariel sit in her chair, and Marie prepared her dish.

Cooking was one of Marie’s specialties.

Aristocratic students seldom cook by themselves. Because of that, there are quite a few students who can’t cook like Ariel.

In that respect, Marie was a bit special. It was because Count Ruhelif’s educational policy was unique.

-“Anyone who becomes a lord should understand the people better than anyone else, Marie. Now that Rose is gone, you are the next lord.”

Those were the words of her grandfather.

Just as Rose was being raised as the lord of the Eiffeltain Marquis family, Marie was also raised as the lord of the Ruhelif Count family.

However, if you are her marquis, you need to build up tremendous culture and dignity, but the count needs a little less than the marquis.

The Earldom of Ruhelif is situated on the frontier, so he sometimes fought his foreign enemies, and at times defended the frontlines covered in mud and eating bugs, his grandfather said.

Because of her grandfather’s way of thinking, Mari went hunting with the villagers and ate home-cooked meals at the villagers’ homes.

It was part of her education that her mother, Marie, made her cook herself.

‘… Although she is often told that she is not aristocratic because of that.’

She honestly doesn’t know how to be noble. It just feels like she lives passively as others tell her to do.

Maybe that’s why I’m happy to cook like this.

She was good at taking cooking classes as a liberal arts subject. In the meantime, she had only been receiving from Ariel, but she had something she could give.

“Eh, Ariel… The meal is ready…, Huh?”

Let’s put out all her food and look in her direction, Ariel…… She was sleeping

She is dozing in her chair. She must have been quite tired, to the point where she was drooling slightly.

“…….”

Marie watched it unconsciously.

If you slightly look the other way, you can see boxes piled up near Ariel’s tent.

All items are made with .

Probably made it in the middle of the night.

“…Oops, did you fall asleep?”

She looked back at Ariel and was getting up, wiping her saliva.

Marie inadvertently stops Ariel from doing so.

“Hey, hey…Pi, if you’re tired, you can rest a bit…”

“…No, that’s fine. You’d better eat it before it gets cold.”

“Yeah, but Ariel…, …… Didn’t you stay up all night?”

Come to think of it, the bed wasn’t very good today.

She thought it was simply because the floor was hard, but if you think about it, it might not have been the only thing.

I feel like I heard a sound from outside the tent. The sound of Ariel’s footsteps and the sound of her hands moving.

She just wanted to go to the bathroom, something she ignored in her sleep, and now she understands what it means.

“……You must be mistaken. Let’s have breakfast.”

Ariel said as Marie approached her food…. It is an intention not to admit it.

She’s been partying with Ariel for less than three weeks, but she knows a few things.

I would say that I am stubborn…. She is firm in her own beliefs and iron rules of conduct.

And she hates it when others touch it,

That’s why she draws a line with others.

‘Still, we’re friends….’

It may not be reliable, but it would be nice if you could rely on it a little more.

Marie let out a small sigh, and she ate breakfast with Ariel.

After breakfast, she immediately packs her backpack and starts raiding the dungeon.

Underground Waterway Dungeon has a very different atmosphere from the Blatta Dungeon.

First of all, it is dark.

That’s too dark.

Blatta Dungeon was also not very bright, but there was hardly any light here.

In the meantime, the road is a single road.

Of course, not all roads are completely single. Sometimes there is a fork in the road, and sometimes there are stairs.

But basically, the dungeon proceeds in the form of following the sewer.

The sewage system is 5m wide, and on both sides of it there are sidewalks for people to walk.

India is quite narrow. Is it wide enough for about 5 people to pass at once?

On top of that, the sewer always has water running through it, and it looks quite deep. You won’t drown if you fall in, but it will be quite difficult to get out.

It’s so polluted that I don’t even want to go in. I’m afraid of getting tetanus.

“…The monsters in the underground canal aren’t that great. The problem is the topography.”

As we walk along, Ariel gives a brief briefing.

“Even if an attack comes, you can’t dodge to the side. You’ll fall into the water right away.”

“…Well, then you have no choice but to run back.”

“However, if there are monsters behind you, you are virtually surrounded.”

That’s why Ariel says that finding monsters quickly is the most important thing.

But there are only two wizards in our party.

There are no thieves or hunters with detection skills. It’s not like there’s a tank to take the attack from the front.

Even the inside of the dungeon is dark, so it’s not easy to spot monsters quickly.

“So from now on, you can’t speak.”

The only things you can rely on are your five senses.

For now, Marie decides to stand in front with a lantern.

Even if the enemy attacks from the front, Marie can block it with In case of emergency.

Then Ariel follows with her eyes closed.

This is to make the most of your hearing. I decided to abandon my sight altogether and focus on my ears.

“Yeah, but walking with your eyes closed is dangerous…”

“It’s okay.”

“…….”

I’m not okay….

But if you ask why it’s not okay, even Mari gets lost in the answer. All I can say is that I’m worried about Ariel.

I thought about it after watching the fight with the elder kobold last time, but there are times when Ariel overdoes it.

Come to think of it, Ariel also said that she jumped in front of monsters to save people during the class assignment test. She still remembers that she started coming to school later than other students because she was hospitalized at the time.

Even when attacking the 3rd floor of the Bletar Dungeon, he used a lot of bombs and used expensive spells.

Fighting against the elder kobolds feels like testing the limits of humanity.

Of course, at that time, Marie also did her group. For two hours, when Ariel was in a critical situation, she had to use magic to assist, and she did not know how many cups of mana potion she drank that day.

But compared to Ariel, she is new blood.

You can only call her crazy for fighting non-stop for two hours.

That’s why I’m worried about doing something so risky.

“……Do you want to hold hands?”

She was worried the entire time she was walking and eventually said that.

Taking a sneak peek at Ariel, she involuntarily opens her eyes.

“…What?”

“That, oh, don’t get me wrong…Eh, she’s just in case Ariel falls…”

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I don’t even know what I’m telling you not to misunderstand. When she asked about that part, her answer was lacking, so I hope she just skipped it.

Fortunately, Ariel didn’t seem to want to point that out either.

She blankly looks at Marie’s hand.