Chapter 280 – Chapter 280 Magic School Shutra (2-15)
I came out to the terrace right after handing in the test papers.
“Hey, the atmosphere is completely different in the morning.”
When I came to the terrace in the past, it was colored yellow because it was the time of the evening sunset, but now the black and white decorations were in harmony with each other to welcome me.
School was quiet.
While I was coming to the terrace, the teaching assistants watching me in the hallways of the school looked at me curiously, but they did not impose any restrictions.
As soon as I arrived at the terrace, I sat down in my dedicated seat and leaned back comfortably.
‘Big… Best during exam period.’
[It’s fortunate that the problem that Zodiac told me came out as it is.]
Problems on the exam paper.
Just in case, I checked all the test papers and looked for a long time to see if there were any mistakes in the questions, but I couldn’t find anything like that.
The problem that the Zodiac told me was accurately presented without a single error.
However, there were no problems with the test, but it seemed that there were some problems with my behavior.
[Anyway, the confrontation with Lewis is only done in terms of grades. I wonder if it was necessary to solve it quickly.]
‘Pride….’
[Is it because of your pride?]
‘No… Not me, Louis.’
The bet with Lewis wasn’t just about writing.
Practical work was included.
Even if you win or draw by handwriting right now, if you lose with an overwhelming difference in skill in practical skills, the perfect score will be completely useless.
So what I was trying to get insurance for was the speed of taking the written test.
‘You have to keep provoking. After all, secondary and main attribute tests are on Thursdays and Fridays. Until then, I’m going to keep gnawing at my pride.’
The tests I take from now until Wednesday were not the tests that had a big impact on my score.
In the meantime, I was planning to keep provoking and distract myself as much as possible during the most important test, the main and accessory tests.
I don’t know if Louis will follow my intentions, but first of all, since his pride is more important than Bob, I wondered if there was a possibility.
[… Certainly, even if it raises doubts, I think that way would be good to win.]
‘Besides, I thought it would be good for Luna if she recognized my skills as well.’
I thought it was a childish but sure way.
It’s not like the report card will come out right away, but Louis’ expression will definitely be worth seeing when the report card comes out.
[Overall, it’s a helpful situation, but I’m worried that it will drive me into cheating later.]
‘Wouldn’t it be better to do something after winning than losing the bet?’
[… Okay. Still, I think it would be better to proceed in the direction of not using Enel as much as possible in preparation for the future.]
‘Yea, I got it.’
I’ve been bothering her for a while now, so I tried to feed her properly, but if I get eaten, she’ll be in trouble.
But even in the midst of self-reflection, it felt good to imagine Louis’ expression.
‘I’ll have to tease her properly when the grades come out later.’
I giggled to myself as I thought so.
Unlike the terrace that I have always seen in the evening sunset, I began to yawn when the bright sunlight shone.
‘Haam… Armonia, when is the next exam?’
[About 1 hour and 30 minutes left.]
‘I’ll close my eyes for a bit.’
I closed my eyes and went to sleep with a good smile, imagining the humiliation I would later inflict on Louis.
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..
“You are at peace.”
“Yes? Oh, are you here?”
I asked the owner of the voice as I rubbed my eyes to correct my blurry vision.
“Did you do well on the test?”
“… Is that what you mean?”
Luna calmly sat down next to me, and she began admonishing me.
“Why did you do that?”
“What?”
“What…. Why did you just leave without taking the test properly?”
I covered her mouth and yawned loudly, and Luna was still waiting for my answer.
I yawned at her and then looked at her softly, and Luna was staring at me disapprovingly.
“Didn’t you say you were going to win?”
“Right. I have to win.”
“Then why the hell….”
Luna continued to stare at me with her disappointed look on her face, and I looked into the air with my eyes open.
“Fire property. Efficient properties with no particular advantages, but no disadvantages. It has excellent water properties and operational power….”
“… ? What are you saying all of a sudden….”
“It has the advantage of consuming less mana. Wind property….”
I didn’t listen to Luna and continued to say what I had to say.
Luna looked at me like a weirdo at first, then she gradually hardened her expression and began to listen to me.
Ma didn’t add a single useless word, and she told Luna exactly the answer she had written earlier.
She listed the answers to the questions in the exam in order, from simple open-ended questions to those requiring deep formulas, and read them the same way.
And he poured out the answer sheet without hesitation until the end.
“The resulting answer is 48 magic power and 7483 mana, which are rounded values.”
“The last number… Can you say that again?”
“48 magic power and 7483 mana.
“….”
Luna closed her eyes and began to ponder her thoughts.
I was then able to turn her head and look at her Luna.
Because she was busy looking at the answer sheet….
“What do you think? Were the answers sufficient?”
“How… In that short time….”
“Thanks to you.”
“… Yes?”
I smiled at her as I carefully stroked her Luna’s silvery hair.
“When I looked at the test papers earlier, the things you told me immediately came to mind. Thank you.”
“….”
Luna maintained her silence, then she gently took my arm and leaned on her shoulder, she said.
“When I’m with Suho, I always seem to be full of worries.”
Haha… I’ll be careful.”
I laughed and spent break time with Luna.
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..
Actually, I was anxious.
If the bet is invalid because he’s just a jerk, he’ll still be able to bend his pride properly, and he’ll be able to make surplus business, but if the school directly drives him to cheating, he’ll end up filing for bankruptcy.
However, it is impossible to turn back time that has already passed.
‘At this time, if there is a baby in midsummer, it is very convenient to kill it and return to it….’
[….]
It would be very convenient to make midsummer clones, lock them up here, and kill them whenever necessary….
Aww, useless guy.
‘You’re not pressuring me to take the test again, are you? That’s really annoying.’
[I’ll tell the Zodiac for now… As I said before, the dean is the problem.]
‘But now that I think about it, the dean didn’t do anything to me….’
If the dean had any ill feelings towards me in the first place, he would have expelled me, not suspension.
In addition, there is a possibility that the test questions were manipulated somehow without Zodiac’s knowledge.
[That would be impossible.]
‘Why? I could have covered it with my hand and secretly wrote down the test questions.’
[… It’s not a concept that can be hidden that way. You can think of the relationship between me and Suho now.]
‘Something like voyeurism?’
[….]
Why? Wasn’t I voyeur?
Armonia voyeurizes me… No, it checks me every day in the form of thorough surveillance.
Even if I act secretly, since I share my view with Armonia, even if I want to do it secretly, everything is bound to be discovered.
The principal says the same.
In addition, the Zodiac and the Holy Temple, unlike our side, are said to be able to read the will of the main character they control to some extent.
Although they cannot fully read their inner thoughts, they are said to be sharing their egos at a level that they can roughly feel.
It is said that when the dean is upset, the mood flows in as if the controller on the Zodiac side is also upset.
In other words, it is not a structure that can be completely hidden even if it is hidden.
[Zodiac’s story was that he felt a disturbing feeling from that emotion, and that his behavior was unusual.]
‘Is it because I’m just interested?’
Previously, there was a case where the Demon King was very interested in the existence of Nara, although it was for a different reason.
I wondered if he was interested in me because he was just a person from another world.
[The problem is that they are not properly answering that fact. Be careful.]
‘Because of silence….’
It was when I was muttering that to myself and scribbling the test papers.
[Suho, Louis is solving the last exam paper.]
‘OK.’
I was on time, solved all of them before Lewis finished the last chapter, and took the test papers to the podium and submitted them.
Again, it was Sonya who accepted my exam papers.
“… Did you have a good look?”
“Yes.”
Contrary to his worried expression earlier, he smiled and took my exam papers and began tidying them up.
“Thanks for your efforts. I wish you the best of luck in your exam tomorrow.”
“Thank you.”
I turned around for a second and winked at Louis, who was glaring at me.
‘Oh oh… You can see the blood vessels protruding from the forehead here too. Armonia.’
[Yes.]
‘Leave that as a video.’
[All right.]
I walked out of the lecture hall smiling and waving my hand at the beautiful veins on Louis’ forehead.
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I sat down on the terrace with Luna and blew her the correct answer I had written down.
Luna gave her full attention for a while, then covered her lips with her finger and spoke softly.
“It looks the same.”
“I’m glad. If it’s the same as you, then it’s all right.”
“… Do you think it’s the opposite? I was relieved to hear Suho’s answer, right?”
I smiled and looked around the terrace.
Students were noisily exchanging stories about today’s exam.
And among them, there were a lot of students in the same class as me.
The students seemed to keep talking about us while keeping an eye on Luna and me.
I said to Luna.
“You go with your friends and talk.”
“… Suho, why don’t you go and make some friends?”
It’s just that the response makes me nervous….
But I’m not going to back down here.
“I’m not in a position to make friends right now. And it would be difficult if things went wrong because of me, the best friend you made.”
“… No trouble at all.”
“Anyway, go ahead and have a chat. I’ll go to the dormitory.”
“Studying for the exam?”
“For the time being, we will do it in the dormitory. So, for the time being, you should study with your friends.”
It may seem a little cold, but I decided to take a hard line.
It’s okay to be alone, it’s me, but I was worried that her friends, whom Luna had barely made, would drift away because of me.
Luna pouted and grunted as she sat and looked up at me.
“… Bad people.”
“Let’s have dinner together later.”
“Huh… I see.”
I listened to Luna’s snort, smiled at her, and headed for the dormitory.
***
Time passed like that, and it was Thursday, and all the students had an adjunct test ahead.
Everyone was talking about the test they had taken so far and the test they were going to take today.
Louise opened the door and entered.
As soon as he saw him, schoolgirls like his followers rushed in and started talking to him.
“Louis! Are you okay?”
“Uh… I’m okay.”
“Thank god… I was really worried. I was worried because I was called every day, how did you solve it?”
“Yes… Well done. Don’t worry.”
Louis moved to his seat with his wry smile.
And with his movement, female students flocked to him like baby birds chasing after their mother.
In the meantime, except for exam time, Lewis spent all day being reprimanded by professors and reflecting.
For some reason, he didn’t come back, even the reason he used his identity to deceive the guards in Stra. I’ve been asking all over
Fortunately, it didn’t turn into a big incident, but Lewis was called to the disciplinary room where exams were over from Monday to Wednesday, and he was forced to write a letter of reflection until bedtime.
‘Fuck… Why am I being treated like that….’
It was only his parents who gave Lewis this kind of rebuke and humiliation.
For Lewis, who had never been reprimanded except by his parents in his entire life, the act of writing a letter of reflection was a shameful thing he would cherish for the rest of his life.
Fortunately, the story of the act did not spread outside.
‘Still, it’s fortunate that there’s nothing left on the record like suspension. If it was recorded, what kind of scolding would be received by my father later in my home country….’
He could feel the presence of a person approaching him as his body trembled for a moment at the thought of his parents.
Luna stood in front of Louis and asked him with a worried expression.
“Louis, are you okay?”
“Uh… It’s okay.”
Louise began to feel ashamed as well as delighted by Luna’s consideration for her.
He always wanted to show only his handsome side, but at some point, he only showed embarrassing things to Luna, so it was hard to look into her eyes.
But Lewis saw this as his chance.
Louis smiled as best he could and asked Luna.
“Luna, did you do well on the test?”
“I did my best. We’ll have to see the results, but….”
Haha… Luna, wouldn’t it be okay to be in the top 5?”
“Well….”
Luna smiled bitterly and looked down at Louis.
Louis continued his story, feeling at peace in his heart.
“Luna… How is that guy?”
“….”
There was no way Luna was unaware of the existence of that guy Louis was talking about.
Louis glanced at her holy guardian from behind Luna, and Luna just kept staring at Louis with her lips closed.
For the past few days, Louis has been in a bad mood, but his physical condition is getting messed up due to Seongsuho.
Seong Soo-ho stands in front of himself and submits the exam papers every time he takes an exam.
Whenever he solved almost everything, Seong Soo-ho went out first and provoked Louis every time as if he was looking through his exam papers.
(Laggard….)
(Heh, I might solve it anyway…)
(Laggard.)
(This bastard….)
(Laggard.)
(This fuck….)
(Laggard.)
Seong Su-ho kept provoking Louis with just one word, and Louis was on the verge of becoming neurotic wheneverheheard that word from Seong Su-ho.
A word that resonates in my head even as I write a letter of reflection.
Laggard.
Another word resonated in Louis’ head, and he glared at Seongsuho with his hands clenched tightly.
When such Seongsuho made eye contact with Louis, he smiled and opened his mouth.
-Laggard.-
Creepy….
Lewis gnawed his face as he gnashed his teeth.
Luna looked at Louis and opened her mouth.
“Louis… Stop that bet even now….”
“No, I have no intention of quitting.”
Louis looked at Luna’s bitter expression and began to smile at her.
‘No matter how much Luna asks, I have no intention of canceling the bet. If I somehow manage to win the test, I’ll pay for the humiliation I’ve been subjected to all at once.’
It was at a time when Louis was making that promise in his heart.
The female students next to him started whispering, looking at him.
“By the way… Are you really okay?”
“I know… I heard that you did very well on the test….”
“Some say it was because it was so easy to leave the room quickly….”
Louise listened to the whispers of the female students next to her and continued to listen, frowning.
The contents of the female students’ conversations were that they were worried about Louis but highly evaluated Seong Su-ho.
‘Says that don’t sound like words….’
These were words I couldn’t understand.
It was because he thought that Seong Su-ho, who had been unable to study properly due to suspension and always left the room earlier than himself, could not get good grades.
But he persevered.
‘Huh… After all, they’re idiots, so they can’t help being swept away by strange rumors.’
It was the moment Louis shook his head and tried to ignore him.
Words he could never get over flowed among the female students.
“What if he really does well and beats Lewis?”
“His grades are higher than Lewis, but if you solve it quickly, that’s it….”
“It’s not a bad thing to be slow. If you get good grades, even if it’s slow….”
Along with the words of the female students, the words of Seongsu-ho resonated in Louise’s mind.
Laggard!
Bang!
Louie’s desk rang out, and everyone in the classroom, not just the female students, began to stare.
Louis huffed a moment, then he forced a smile through his red face and opened his mouth.
Haha… Sorry…. Suddenly, another thought came to me….”
“Sorry, sorry….”
“No, I am really sorry.”
Louis thought to himself as he watched Sung Soo-ho, who wriggled his red forehead and looked at him meaningfully.
‘Anyway, the results are already complete. That guy can’t see very well. This time I….’
Louis chewed his lips carefully and glared at Seongsuho.
